Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 113
The god said, “Let us go straight till we come to that one; then you catch him and hold him fast.
Who acts: god, us, we, you · What happens: say, let, go, come, catch, hold · To what, where: us, one, god · 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, us, we, you), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 god | det |
| 2 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Let | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Let | punct |
| 6 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 Let | obj |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 Let | xcomp |
| 9 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 12 come | advmod |
| 10 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 12 come | mark |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 come | nsubj |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 go | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 one | case |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 one | det |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 come | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 catch | punct |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 catch | advmod |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 catch | nsubj |
| 19 | catch | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | parataxis |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 catch | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 hold | cc |
| 22 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 catch | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 hold | obj |
| 24 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 hold | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the god | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | come in a quote | present | we | that one | straight property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to one=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | catch in a quote | present | you | god | then | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 6 | hold in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | god | fast property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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