Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 80
One day Paao said: “I was watching the stars last night and my thought is that some water-god has put his hands under out boats and moved us away from Hawaii.”
Who acts: Paao, my · What happens: say, watch, be, move away, think · To what, where: stars, water god, boats, us, Hawaii · 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: who acts (Paao, my), 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 | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | Paao | Paao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 watching | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 watching | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 watching | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 watching | aux |
| 9 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 said | ccomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stars | det |
| 11 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 watching | obj |
| 12 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 night | amod |
| 13 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 watching | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 thought | cc |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 thought | nmod:poss |
| 16 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 night | conj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 put | cop |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 put | mark |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 god | det |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 god | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 water | punct |
| 22 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 put | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 put | aux |
| 24 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 watching | advcl |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 hands | nmod:poss |
| 26 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 put | obj |
| 27 | under | under | ADP | _ | 29 boats | case |
| 28 | out | out | ADP | _ | 27 under | compound:prt |
| 29 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 put | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 moved | cc |
| 31 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 32 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 moved | obj |
| 33 | away | away | ADV | _ | 31 moved | advmod |
| 34 | from | from | ADP | _ | 35 Hawaii | case |
| 35 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 moved | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 37 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Paao | day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | watch in a quote | past · progressive | Paao | the stars | night | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent star=Theme | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | present · perfect · passive | some water god | boats | Paao's hands obj; put property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | move away in a quote | past | Paao not said here | us | Hawaii | away property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme we=Result | ||
| 5 | think in a quote | my | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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