Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 50
Here he took his calabash of winds and became the god of the winds, opening his calabash and letting breezes or storms escape according to the wishes of the one seeking his aid.
Who acts: Laa, breezes, one · What happens: take, become, open, let, escape, accord · To what, where: calabash, god, aid
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Moi-keha, the Restless. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Laa, breezes, one), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 calabash | nmod:poss |
| 5 | calabash | calabash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 winds | case |
| 7 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 calabash | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 became | cc |
| 9 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 god | det |
| 11 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 became | xcomp |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 winds | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 winds | det |
| 14 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 god | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 opening | punct |
| 16 | opening | open | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 took | advcl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 calabash | nmod:poss |
| 18 | calabash | calabash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 opening | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 letting | cc |
| 20 | letting | let | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 opening | conj |
| 21 | breezes | breeze | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 escape | nsubj |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 storms | cc |
| 23 | storms | storm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 breezes | conj |
| 24 | escape | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 letting | ccomp |
| 25 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 wishes | case |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 according | fixed |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 wishes | det |
| 28 | wishes | wish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 letting | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 one | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 one | det |
| 31 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 wishes | nmod |
| 32 | seeking | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 one | acl |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 aid | nmod:poss |
| 34 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 seeking | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Laa | Laa's calabash of winds | here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calabash=Theme | |||
| 2 | become | past | Laa not said here | the god of the winds | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | open | gerund | Laa not said here | Laa's calabash | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location calabash=Theme | ||||
| 4 | let | gerund | Laa not said here | accord the wishes of the one | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | escape | present | breezes or storms | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | seek | gerund | the one not said here | Laa's aid | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aid=Theme | ||||
| 8 | wish | the one | nom wish «feeling 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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