Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 106
He took his bamboo stick with all his aid inside and put it under his arm, put on his magic cloak, and said “Aloha.”
Who acts: god · What happens: take, put, say · To what, where: bamboo stick, stick, arm, magic cloak · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Water of Life [1]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (god), 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 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 stick | nmod:poss |
| 4 | bamboo | bamboo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stick | compound |
| 5 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 aid | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 aid | det:predet |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 aid | nmod:poss |
| 9 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 10 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 2 took | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 put | cc |
| 12 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 took | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 put | obj |
| 14 | under | under | ADP | _ | 16 arm | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 arm | nmod:poss |
| 16 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 put | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 put | punct |
| 18 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 put | conj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 cloak | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 cloak | nmod:poss |
| 21 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 cloak | amod |
| 22 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 put | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 said | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 said | cc |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | parataxis |
| 26 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 Aloha | punct |
| 27 | Aloha | Aloha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 said | ccomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 Aloha | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 Aloha | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | god | god's bamboo stick | with god's aid; inside property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme | |||
| 2 | put | infinitive | god not said here | stick | god's arm | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme under arm=Destination | |||
| 3 | put | infinitive | god not said here | god's magic cloak | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on cloak=Destination | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Aloha ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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