Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 137
Therefore I ask you, if you wish to see him healed, have him brought before my eyes for the treatment.”
Who acts: I, you, steersman · What happens: ask, wish, see, heal, have, bring · To what, where: you, steersman, eyes
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Law of the Splintered Paddle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, steersman), 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 3 ask | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 ask | nsubj |
| 3 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 ask | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wish | punct |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 wish | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 wish | nsubj |
| 8 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ask | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 see | mark |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 wish | xcomp |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 see | obj |
| 12 | healed | heal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 see | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 have | punct |
| 14 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ask | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 have | obj |
| 16 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 have | xcomp |
| 17 | before | before | ADP | _ | 19 eyes | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 19 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 brought | obl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 treatment | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 treatment | det |
| 22 | treatment | treatment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 brought | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ask | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | I | you | therefore property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | |||
| 2 | wish a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | steersman | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | heal | participle | steersman not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | have | present | I not said here | steersman | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | bring | participle | steersman not said here | my eyes | for the treatment | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before eye=Destination |
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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