Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 32
“Hush, mother,” said the young man, as he glanced significantly over to Oluolu, who had evidently some secret knowledge of the way to violate tabu.
Who acts: mother, expression, Oluolu · What happens: say, glance, have, violate · To what, where: Oluolu, secret knowledge, 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 (mother, expression, 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Hush | hush | INTJ | _ | 4 mother | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hush | punct |
| 4 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 mother | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 mother | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 9 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 glanced | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 glanced | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 glanced | nsubj |
| 14 | glanced | glance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 15 | significantly | significantly | ADV | _ | 16 over | advmod |
| 16 | over | over | ADV | _ | 14 glanced | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 Oluolu | case |
| 18 | Oluolu | Oluolu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 glanced | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 had | punct |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 had | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 Oluolu | acl:relcl |
| 22 | evidently | evidently | ADV | _ | 25 knowledge | advmod |
| 23 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 knowledge | det |
| 24 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 knowledge | amod |
| 25 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 had | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 way | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 way | det |
| 28 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 knowledge | nmod |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 violate | mark |
| 30 | violate | violate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 way | acl |
| 31 | tabu | tabu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 violate | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | mother | the young man nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | glance | past | expression | Oluolu | over property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to oluolu=Theme | |||
| 3 | have | past | Oluolu | some secret knowledge of the way | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knowledge=Patient | ||||
| 4 | violate | to-infinitive | Oluolu not said here | tabu | 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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