Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 36
Nevertheless, “she had to kolo-kolo or crawl on her hands and knees whenever she entered the house of her husband, the tabu-chief.”
Who acts: woman · What happens: have, enter · To what, where: hands, house
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Hawaiian Flag. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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 | Nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 5 had | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nevertheless | punct |
| 3 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 kolo | case |
| 7 | kolo | kolo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kolo | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 kolo | punct |
| 9 | kolo | kolo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obl |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 crawl | cc |
| 11 | crawl | crawl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kolo | conj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 hands | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hands | nmod:poss |
| 14 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 had | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 knees | cc |
| 16 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 hands | conj |
| 17 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 entered | advmod |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 entered | nsubj |
| 19 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 had | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 house | det |
| 21 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 entered | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 husband | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 husband | nmod:poss |
| 24 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 house | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 chief | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 chief | det |
| 27 | tabu | tabu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 chief | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 tabu | punct |
| 29 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 house | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | past | woman | woman's hands and knees | to kolo kolo or crawl; nevertheless property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | enter in a quote | past | woman | the house of woman's husband and the tabu chief | whenever property | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Destination |
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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