Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui Seeking Immortality, sentence 30
He said to the birds: “If I go into the stomach of this woman do not laugh until I have gone through her, and come out again at her mouth; then you can laugh at me.”
Who acts: Maui, birds · What happens: say, go, not laugh, come out, laugh · To what, where: birds, stomach, mouth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Maui Seeking Immortality. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maui, birds), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 birds | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 birds | det |
| 5 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 said | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 laugh | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 laugh | punct |
| 8 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 go | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 go | nsubj |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 laugh | advcl |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 stomach | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 stomach | det |
| 13 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 go | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 woman | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 woman | det |
| 16 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stomach | nmod |
| 17 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 19 laugh | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 laugh | advmod |
| 19 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 20 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 23 gone | mark |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 gone | nsubj |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 gone | aux |
| 23 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 laugh | advcl |
| 24 | through | through | ADP | _ | 25 her | case |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 gone | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 come | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 come | cc |
| 28 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 laugh | conj |
| 29 | out | out | ADV | _ | 28 come | advmod |
| 30 | again | again | ADV | _ | 28 come | advmod |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 mouth | case |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 33 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 come | obl |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 laugh | punct |
| 35 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 38 laugh | advmod |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 38 laugh | nsubj |
| 37 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 laugh | aux |
| 38 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 laugh | conj |
| 39 | at | at | ADP | _ | 40 me | case |
| 40 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 laugh | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 laugh | punct |
| 42 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 laugh | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Maui | the birds | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to bird=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | Maui | the stomach of this woman | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into stomach=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | not laugh in a quote | infinitive · do-support | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | go in a quote | present · perfect | Maui | through woman | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through she=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | come out in a quote | infinitive | woman's mouth | again | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | |||
| 6 | laugh in a quote | can | the birds = bird | then | at Maui | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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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