Hawaiian Historical Legends, Laa From Tahiti, sentence 39
Another set of legends rehearses the age of Olopana and his desire for Laa to remain with him until his life should end.
Who acts: set, life · What happens: rehearse, remain, end, desire · To what, where: age
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Laa From Tahiti. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (set, life), 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 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 set | det |
| 2 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rehearses | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 legends | case |
| 4 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 set | nmod |
| 5 | rehearses | rehearse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 age | det |
| 7 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rehearses | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Olopana | case |
| 9 | Olopana | Olopana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 age | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 desire | cc |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 desire | nmod:poss |
| 12 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 age | conj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 Laa | case |
| 14 | Laa | Laa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 desire | nmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 remain | mark |
| 16 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 rehearses | ccomp |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 remain | obl |
| 19 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 23 end | mark |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 life | nmod:poss |
| 21 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 end | nsubj |
| 22 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 end | aux |
| 23 | end | end | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 remain | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rehearses | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rehearse | present | another set of legends | the age of Olopana and set's desire for Laa | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | remain | to-infinitive | another set of legends not said here | with set | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | end | should | set's life | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | desire | set | for Laa | nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |
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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