Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 17
“Where are Oluolu and her husband?” asked the queen.
Who acts: Oluolu · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: Oluolu, 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 (Oluolu), 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 | _ | 10 asked | punct |
| 2 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 Oluolu | advmod |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Oluolu | cop |
| 4 | Oluolu | Oluolu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 husband | cc |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 husband | nmod:poss |
| 7 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Oluolu | conj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 Oluolu | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Oluolu | punct |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 queen | det |
| 12 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Oluolu and queen's husband | queen's husband conj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Oluolu and queen's husband | the queen | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent queen=Recipient |
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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