Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 18
“Coming soon with the pink taro you so dearly love,” was the reply.
Who acts: you, Coming · What happens: come, love, be · To what, where: reply · 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 (you, Coming), 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 | _ | 2 Coming | punct |
| 2 | Coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 reply | csubj |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 Coming | advmod |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 taro | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 taro | det |
| 6 | pink | pink | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 taro | amod |
| 7 | taro | taro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Coming | obl |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 love | nsubj |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 dearly | advmod |
| 10 | dearly | dearly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 love | amod |
| 11 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Coming | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Coming | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Coming | punct |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 reply | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 reply | det |
| 16 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 reply | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | gerund | with the pink taro; soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | love in a quote | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | be speech: assert | past | Coming | the reply | tree rules |
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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