Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 117
A longer pig would get a knife for a chief.
Who acts: longer pig · What happens: get · To what, where: knife
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Captain Cook. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (longer pig), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 pig | det |
| 2 | longer | long | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 pig | amod |
| 3 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 get | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 get | aux |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 knife | det |
| 7 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 get | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 chief | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 chief | det |
| 10 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 knife | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | would | a longer pig | a knife | for a chief | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent knife=Theme for chief=Source |
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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