Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 96
Paao and his prophet alternated between hope and fear.
What happens: alternate · To what, where: prophet, Paao
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 | Paao | Paao | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 prophet | cc |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 prophet | nmod:poss |
| 4 | prophet | prophet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Paao | conj |
| 5 | alternated | alternate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 prophet | acl |
| 6 | between | between | ADP | _ | 7 hope | case |
| 7 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 alternated | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 fear | cc |
| 9 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hope | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Paao | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | alternate | participle | Paao's prophet not said here | between hope and fear | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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