Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui Seeking Immortality, sentence 32
Maui replied: “If you laugh at me when I have only entered her stomach I shall be killed, but if I have passed through her and come out of her mouth I shall escape and Hine-nui-te-po will die.”
Who acts: Maui, you, Hine · What happens: reply, laugh, enter, kill, pass, come out · To what, where: stomach, Maui, 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, you, Hine), 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 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 replied | nsubj |
| 2 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 laugh | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 laugh | punct |
| 5 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 laugh | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 laugh | nsubj |
| 7 | laugh | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 replied | conj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 me | case |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 laugh | obl |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 entered | advmod |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 entered | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 entered | aux |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 entered | advmod |
| 14 | entered | enter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 laugh | advcl |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 stomach | nmod:poss |
| 16 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 entered | obj |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 killed | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 killed | aux:pass |
| 20 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 entered | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 passed | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 passed | cc |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 passed | mark |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 passed | nsubj |
| 25 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 passed | aux |
| 26 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 replied | conj |
| 27 | through | through | ADP | _ | 28 her | case |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 passed | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 come | cc |
| 30 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 26 passed | conj |
| 31 | out | out | ADV | _ | 30 come | advmod |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 mouth | case |
| 33 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 34 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 come | obl |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 escape | nsubj |
| 36 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 escape | aux |
| 37 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 mouth | acl:relcl |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 die | cc |
| 39 | Hine | Hine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 die | nsubj |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 Hine | punct |
| 41 | nui | nui | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 Hine | appos |
| 42 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 nui | punct |
| 43 | te | te | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 po | compound |
| 44 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 43 te | punct |
| 45 | po | po | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 die | nsubj |
| 46 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 die | aux |
| 47 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 passed | conj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 replied | punct |
| 49 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Maui | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | laugh a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | at Maui | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | enter in a quote | present · perfect | Maui | woman's stomach | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stomach=Destination | ||||
| 4 | kill in a quote | shall · passive | Maui | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | pass a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · perfect | Maui | through woman | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through she=Location | ||||
| 6 | come out in a quote | infinitive | Maui not said here | of woman's mouth; out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 7 | escape in a quote | shall | Maui | woman's mouth not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mouth=Initial_Location | ||||
| 8 | die in a quote | future | Hine | te po nsubj | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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