Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 24
“O my Kahai,” he said, “yesterday and the defeat at Hilo make my thoughts burn!
Who acts: Kahai, yesterday, thoughts, my · What happens: say, make, burn, think · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Kahai, yesterday, thoughts, my), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 4 Kahai | discourse |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 Kahai | nmod:poss |
| 4 | Kahai | Kahai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Kahai | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Kahai | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 make | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 make | punct |
| 11 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 make | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 defeat | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 defeat | det |
| 14 | defeat | defeat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 yesterday | conj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 Hilo | case |
| 16 | Hilo | Hilo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 defeat | nmod |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 19 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 burn | nsubj |
| 20 | burn | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 make | parataxis |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | my Kahai | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | make in a quote | infinitive | yesterday and the defeat at Hilo | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 3 | burn in a quote | present | my thoughts | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | think in a quote | my | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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