Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui the Polynesian, sentence 21
“Never mind; let him be our dear brother.
Who acts: you, eldest · What happens: not mind, let, be · To what, where: eldest, dear brother
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Maui the Polynesian. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, eldest), 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 | _ | 3 mind | punct |
| 2 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 mind | advmod |
| 3 | mind | mind | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 mind | conj |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 let | obj |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 brother | cop |
| 8 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 brother | nmod:poss |
| 9 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 brother | amod |
| 10 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 let | xcomp |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mind in a quote | imperative | you not said here | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | eldest = eld | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | infinitive | eldest = eld not said here | our dear brother | our nmod:poss | 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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