Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 22
Ka-ahu-manu laughed gaily, saying: “O my thoughtless one, you have tempted your queen to break tabu.”
Who acts: Ka ahu manu · What happens: laugh, say, tempt, break · To what, where: you, tabu · 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 (Ka ahu manu), 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 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 manu | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ka | punct |
| 3 | ahu | ahu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 manu | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 ahu | punct |
| 5 | manu | manu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 laughed | nsubj |
| 6 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | gaily | gaily | ADV | _ | 6 laughed | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 saying | punct |
| 9 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 laughed | advcl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 one | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 one | punct |
| 12 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 15 one | discourse |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 one | nmod:poss |
| 14 | thoughtless | thoughtless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 one | amod |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saying | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 tempted | punct |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 tempted | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 tempted | aux |
| 19 | tempted | tempt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 one | conj |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 queen | nmod:poss |
| 21 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tempted | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 break | mark |
| 23 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 tempted | advcl |
| 24 | tabu | tabu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 break | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 one | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | Ka ahu manu | gaily property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | Ka ahu manu not said here | my thoughtless one ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | tempt in a quote | present · perfect · passive | you | your queen obj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer queen=Result | ||||
| 4 | break in a quote | to-infinitive | tabu | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tabu=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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