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Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui the Polynesian, sentence 57

They said among themselves, “There are three in the boat and we know not where the other one is, we will make no fire to-day.”

Who acts: fishermen, three, we, other one · What happens: say, be, not know, make · To what, where: fire · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (fishermen, three, we, other one), 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

nsubjcaseoblpunctpunctexplccompnsubjcasedetnmodccnsubjconjadvmodadvmoddetamodnsubjccomppunctnsubjauxparataxisdetobjcasepunctoblpunctpunctrootTheyPRONsaidVERBamongADPthemselvesPRON,PUNCT“PUNCTTherePRONareVERBthreeNUMinADPtheDETboatNOUNandCCONJwePRONknowVERBnotPARTwhereADVtheDETotherADJoneNOUNisVERB,PUNCTwePRONwillAUXmakeVERBnoDETfireNOUNtoADP-PUNCTdayNOUN.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs2 saidnsubj
2saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3amongamongADP_4 themselvescase
4themselvesthemselvesPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes2 saidobl
5,,PUNCT_8 arepunct
6“"PUNCT_8 arepunct
7TheretherePRONPronType=Dem8 areexpl
8arebeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin2 saidccomp
9threethreeNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card8 arensubj
10ininADP_12 boatcase
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 boatdet
12boatboatNOUNNumber=Sing9 threenmod
13andandCCONJ_15 knowcc
14wewePRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs15 knownsubj
15knowknowVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin2 saidconj
16notnotPARTPolarity=Neg15 knowadvmod
17wherewhereADVPronType=Rel21 isadvmod
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 onedet
19otherotherADJDegree=Pos20 oneamod
20oneoneNOUNNumber=Sing21 isnsubj
21isbeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin15 knowccomp
22,,PUNCT_25 makepunct
23wewePRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs25 makensubj
24willwillAUXVerbForm=Fin25 makeaux
25makemakeVERBVerbForm=Inf2 saidparataxis
26nonoDETPronType=Neg27 firedet
27firefireNOUNNumber=Sing25 makeobj
28totoADP_30 daycase
29--PUNCT_28 topunct
30daydayNOUNNumber=Sing25 makeobl
31..PUNCT_25 makepunct
32”"PUNCT_25 makepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assertpastfishermen = fishermanamong fishermen = fishermanvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2be in a quotepresentthree in the boattherevn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3not know in a quotepresentwevn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4be in a quotepresentthe other onevn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5make in a quotefutureweno firedayvn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product

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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