Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 51
He controlled the direction in which the winds should travel, by lifting the cover on one side of the calabash.
Who acts: Laa, winds · What happens: control, travel, lift · To what, where: direction, cover, one side
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, winds), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 controlled | nsubj |
| 2 | controlled | control | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 direction | det |
| 4 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 controlled | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 which | case |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 travel | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 winds | det |
| 8 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 travel | nsubj |
| 9 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 travel | aux |
| 10 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 direction | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lifting | punct |
| 12 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 13 lifting | mark |
| 13 | lifting | lift | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 controlled | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cover | det |
| 15 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lifting | obj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 side | case |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 side | nummod |
| 18 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lifting | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 calabash | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 calabash | det |
| 21 | calabash | calabash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 side | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 controlled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | control | past | Laa | the direction | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent direction=Theme | ||||
| 2 | travel | should | the winds | the direction | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | lift | gerund | Laa not said here | the cover | one side of the calabash | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cover=Theme on side=Destination |
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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