Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 125
He tried to shake Aukele off, saying: “Who are you?
Who acts: traveller, you · What happens: try, shake off, say, be · To what, where: Aukele · 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 (traveller, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 tried | nsubj |
| 2 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 shake | mark |
| 4 | shake | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tried | xcomp |
| 5 | Aukele | Aukele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 shake | obj |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 shake | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 saying | punct |
| 8 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 shake | advcl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 Who | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Who | punct |
| 11 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 saying | obj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 Who | cop |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 Who | nsubj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | traveller | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | shake off not said to happen | to-infinitive | traveller not said here | Aukele | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent aukele=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | gerund | traveller not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | you | tree rules |
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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