Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 71
Lonopele ordered his magic bird to take up great waves of water and pour them from the sky, overwhelming the fugitives.
Who acts: Lonopele · What happens: order, take up, pour, overwhelm, wave · To what, where: magic bird, great waves, waves, sky, fugitives, water
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: who acts (Lonopele), 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 | Lonopele | Lonopele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 ordered | nsubj |
| 2 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 bird | nmod:poss |
| 4 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bird | amod |
| 5 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ordered | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 take | mark |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 ordered | xcomp |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 take | compound:prt |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 waves | amod |
| 10 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 take | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 water | case |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 waves | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 pour | cc |
| 14 | pour | pour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 take | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 pour | obj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 sky | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sky | det |
| 18 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pour | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 overwhelming | punct |
| 20 | overwhelming | overwhelm | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 pour | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 fugitives | det |
| 22 | fugitives | fugitive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 overwhelming | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | Lonopele | Lonopele's magic bird | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent bird=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | take up not said to happen | to-infinitive | Lonopele not said here | great waves of water | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wave=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pour | infinitive | Lonopele not said here | waves = wave | the sky | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme from sky=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | overwhelm | gerund | Lonopele not said here | the fugitives | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fugitive=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | wave | water | nom wave «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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