Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 61
One of the priest-friends leaped into the water, calling for Paao to return and rescue him.
What happens: leap, call, return, rescue · To what, where: priest friends, water, Paao, One · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Paao From Samoa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 friends | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 friends | det |
| 4 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 friends | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 priest | punct |
| 6 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 One | nmod |
| 7 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 friends | acl |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 water | det |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leaped | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 calling | punct |
| 12 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 leaped | advcl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 Paao | case |
| 14 | Paao | Paao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 calling | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 return | mark |
| 16 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 calling | advcl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 rescue | cc |
| 18 | rescue | rescue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 return | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 rescue | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 One | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leap | participle | the priest friends not said here | the water | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into water=Destination | ||||
| 2 | call | gerund | for Paao | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for paao=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | return | to-infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | rescue | infinitive | Paao | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66357 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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