Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Red Mouth Gun, sentence 47
Be strong and valiant and we shall drink the water of Waipio and eat the taro of Kunaka.”
Who acts: you, we · What happens: be, drink, eat · To what, where: water, taro
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Red Mouth Gun. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we), 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 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 2 strong | cop |
| 2 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 valiant | cc |
| 4 | valiant | valiant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 strong | conj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 drink | cc |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 drink | nsubj |
| 7 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 drink | aux |
| 8 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 strong | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 water | det |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drink | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Waipio | case |
| 12 | Waipio | Waipio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 water | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 eat | cc |
| 14 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 drink | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 taro | det |
| 16 | taro | taro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 eat | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Kunaka | case |
| 18 | Kunaka | Kunaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 taro | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 strong | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 strong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | imperative | you not said here | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | you not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | drink | shall | we | the water of Waipio | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | ||||
| 4 | eat | present | we not said here | the taro of Kunaka | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taro=Patient |
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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