Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 14
“Oh! my chief! my chief!
To what, where: chief
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Last of the Tabu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 5 chief | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 chief | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 chief | nmod:poss |
| 5 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 chief | punct |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 chief | nmod:poss |
| 8 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chief | nmod |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 chief | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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