--- title: So Aukele flew and leaped straight on the second watchman, who told… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics description: So Aukele flew and leaped straight on the second watchman, who told him not to go to the left or he would strike the lama trees (very hard wood, used for building houses for the gods). Who acts: Aukele, second watchman, watchman. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The W --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/4/132/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Hawaiian Historical Legends](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/) / [The Water of Life \[1\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/4/) / 132 # Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life \[1\], sentence 132 So Aukele flew and leaped straight on the second watchman, who told him not to go to the left or he would strike the lama trees (very hard wood, used for building houses for the gods). **Who acts:** Aukele, second watchman, watchman · **What happens:** fly, leap, tell, not go, strike, use · **To what, where:** second watchman, watchman, left, lama trees, hard wood · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Water of Life \[1\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Aukele, second watchman, watchman), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66357:4:132 # text = So Aukele flew and leaped straight on the second watchman, who told him not to go to the left or he would strike the lama trees (very hard wood, used for building houses for the gods). 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 Aukele Aukele PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 leaped leap VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 6 straight straight ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 10 amod _ _ 10 watchman watchman NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 14 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 iobj _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 left left NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 strike strike VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 lama lama NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 28 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 very very ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 acl _ _ 34 for for ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 building building NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 houses house NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 37 for for ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 gods god NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fly** | past | Aukele | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **leap** | past | Aukele *not said here* | the second watchman | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme watchman=Trajectory | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the second watchman | | watchman | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **not** **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the second watchman *not said here* | | | the left | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to left=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **strike** | would | watchman | the lama trees hard wood | | | | | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient | | 6 | **use** | participle | | hard wood *not said here* | | | | for building houses for the gods | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=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. - ← previous: [sentence 131](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/4/131/) - next →: [sentence 133](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/4/133/) - ↑ back to [The Water of Life \[1\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/4/)