Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui the Polynesian, sentence 66
But the bird cried out: “If you are the death of me—my secret will perish also—and you cannot have fire.”
Who acts: bird, you, secret · What happens: cry out, be, perish, not have · To what, where: death, 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 (bird, you, secret), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 cried | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bird | det |
| 3 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cried | nsubj |
| 4 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 cried | compound:prt |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 death | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 death | punct |
| 8 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 death | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 death | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 death | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 death | det |
| 12 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cried | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 me | case |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 death | nmod |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 perish | punct |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 secret | nmod:poss |
| 17 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 perish | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 perish | aux |
| 19 | perish | perish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 cried | parataxis |
| 20 | also | also | ADV | _ | 19 perish | advmod |
| 21 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 have | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 have | cc |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 have | nsubj |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 have | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 have | advmod |
| 26 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 perish | conj |
| 27 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 have | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 perish | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 perish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry out speech: express | past | the bird | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | the death | of the bird = bird | tree rules | |||
| 3 | perish in a quote | future | my secret | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | not have in a quote | can | you | fire | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=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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