Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 16
The queen gently raised the old woman, calling her “mother,” as was the Hawaiian custom when speaking to favourite retainers.
Who acts: queen · What happens: raise, call, be, speak · To what, where: old woman, queen · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (queen), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 queen | det |
| 2 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 raised | nsubj |
| 3 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 4 raised | advmod |
| 4 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 woman | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 woman | amod |
| 7 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 raised | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 calling | punct |
| 9 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 raised | advcl |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 calling | obj |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 mother | punct |
| 12 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 calling | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 mother | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 mother | punct |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 custom | case |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 custom | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 custom | det |
| 18 | Hawaiian | hawaiian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 custom | amod |
| 19 | custom | custom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 calling | obl |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 speaking | advmod |
| 21 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 calling | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 retainers | case |
| 23 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 retainers | amod |
| 24 | retainers | retainer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 speaking | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | past | the queen | the old woman | gently property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme | |||
| 2 | call | gerund | the queen not said here | queen | mother obj | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme mother=Result | |||
| 3 | is | past | as the Hawaiian custom | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | gerund | the queen not said here | to favourite retainers | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to retainer=Co-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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