Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Hawaiian Printing, sentence 12
If perhaps she can carry, give you to me sahs tools,” signed “Gov. Adams.”
Who acts: wife · What happens: carry, give, sign · To what, where: sahs tools, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, First Hawaiian Printing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 2 perhaps | mark |
| 2 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 5 carry | advcl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 carry | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 carry | aux |
| 5 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 give | punct |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 carry | conj |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 give | iobj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 me | case |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 give | obl |
| 11 | sahs | sah | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 tools | compound |
| 12 | tools | tool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 give | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 carry | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 carry | punct |
| 15 | signed | sign | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 carry | parataxis |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Adams | punct |
| 17 | Gov. | Gov. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Adams | compound |
| 18 | Adams | adam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 signed | obl:agent |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 carry | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | can | wife | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | give | infinitive | wife not said here | sahs tools | you | to me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient tool=Theme | ||
| 3 | sign in a quote | participle | Gov. Adams obl:agent | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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