Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 57
A certain war-chief said, “I will go and hao that hao treasure, for my profession is to hao” (steal).
Who acts: certain war chief, that, profession · What happens: say, go, treasure, be · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (certain war chief, that, profession), 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 | 5 chief | det |
| 2 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 chief | amod |
| 3 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chief | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 war | punct |
| 5 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 go | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 go | aux |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 hao | cc |
| 13 | hao | hao | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 go | conj |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 treasure | nsubj |
| 15 | hao | hao | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 treasure | compound |
| 16 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hao | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 hao | punct |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 hao | case |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 profession | nmod:poss |
| 20 | profession | profession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hao | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 hao | cop |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 hao | case |
| 23 | hao | hao | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 go | obl |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 hao | punct |
| 25 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 26 steal | punct |
| 26 | steal | steal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hao | appos |
| 27 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 26 steal | punct |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | a certain war chief | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go in a quote | future | a certain war chief = chief | hao and hao treasure conj | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | treasure in a quote | that | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | my profession | for hao; steal appos | tree rules |
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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