Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 98
If a mistake had been made there was no possible escape from starvation.
Who acts: possible escape · What happens: make, be · To what, where: mistake
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 (possible escape), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 made | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 mistake | det |
| 3 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 made | aux:pass |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 was | expl |
| 8 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | ccomp |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 escape | det |
| 10 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 escape | amod |
| 11 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 was | nsubj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 starvation | case |
| 13 | starvation | starvation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 escape | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · perfect · passive | a mistake | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | be | past | no possible escape from starvation | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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