Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 76
Sometimes they passed through a school of fish, and caught all they could, drying them for future use.
Who acts: showers · What happens: pass, catch, dry · To what, where: school, all, showers
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 (showers), 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 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 passed | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 school | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 school | det |
| 6 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 fish | case |
| 8 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 school | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 caught | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 caught | cc |
| 11 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | conj |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 caught | obj |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 could | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 all | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 drying | punct |
| 16 | drying | dry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 caught | advcl |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 drying | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 use | case |
| 19 | future | future | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 use | amod |
| 20 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 drying | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | showers = shower | a school of fish | sometimes property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through school=Location | |||
| 2 | catch | past | showers = shower not said here | all | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme | ||||
| 3 | dry | gerund | showers = shower not said here | showers = shower | for future use | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient they=Result |
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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