Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 41
Your prophet has said: ‘The cloud of Ka-meha-meha shall rest on the mountains of all the islands.’
Who acts: cloud · What happens: say, rest, cloud · To what, where: prophet, mountains, Ka · 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 (cloud), 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 prophet | nmod:poss |
| 2 | prophet | prophet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | aux |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 cloud | punct |
| 7 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cloud | det |
| 8 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rest | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Ka | case |
| 10 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 cloud | nmod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 meha | punct |
| 12 | meha | meha | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 cloud | conj |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 meha | punct |
| 14 | meha | meha | X | Foreign=Yes | 12 meha | flat:foreign |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 rest | aux |
| 16 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 mountains | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 mountains | det |
| 19 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 rest | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 islands | case |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 islands | det:predet |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 islands | det |
| 23 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 mountains | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · perfect · passive | Your prophet | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | rest | shall | the cloud of Ka | the mountains of all islands | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on mountain=Location | ||||
| 3 | cloud | Ka | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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