Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 156
The Alapa warriors shouted, “Let us drink of the waters of Wai-luku this day!”
Who acts: Alapa warriors, us · What happens: shout, let, drink · To what, where: us · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Alapa Regiment. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alapa warriors, us), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 warriors | det |
| 2 | Alapa | Alapa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 warriors | compound |
| 3 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 shouted | nsubj |
| 4 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Let | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Let | punct |
| 7 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 shouted | ccomp |
| 8 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 Let | obj |
| 9 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 Let | xcomp |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 waters | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 waters | det |
| 12 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 drink | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Wai | case |
| 14 | Wai | Wai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 waters | appos |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 luku | punct |
| 16 | luku | luku | X | Foreign=Yes | 14 Wai | dep |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 day | det |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drink | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 Let | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | past | the Alapa warriors | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | drink in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | day | of the waters | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of water=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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