Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 97
The awful suffering of hunger and thirst was among them.
Who acts: awful suffering, hunger · What happens: be, suffer
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 (awful suffering, hunger), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 suffering | det |
| 2 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 suffering | amod |
| 3 | suffering | suffering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 them | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 hunger | case |
| 5 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 suffering | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 thirst | cc |
| 7 | thirst | thirst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hunger | conj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 them | cop |
| 9 | among | among | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 them | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the awful suffering of hunger and thirst | among hunger | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | suffer | hunger and thirst | nom suffering «state intransitive»: of=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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