Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 131
Do not turn to the side or you will strike bamboo which will make a great noise, and my grandchild, Pele’s brother, will hear and will cover the water tight, and you cannot get it.”
Who acts: you, grandchild · What happens: not turn, strike, make, hear, cover, not get · To what, where: side, bamboo, great noise, water
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 (you, grandchild), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 turn | aux |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 turn | advmod |
| 3 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 side | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 side | det |
| 6 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turn | obl |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 strike | cc |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 strike | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 strike | aux |
| 10 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 turn | conj |
| 11 | bamboo | bamboo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 strike | obj |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 make | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 make | aux |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 strike | parataxis |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 noise | det |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 noise | amod |
| 17 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 make | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 hear | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 hear | cc |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 grandchild | nmod:poss |
| 21 | grandchild | grandchild | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 hear | nsubj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 brother | punct |
| 23 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 brother | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 Pele | case |
| 25 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 grandchild | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 grandchild | punct |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 hear | aux |
| 28 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 turn | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 cover | cc |
| 30 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 cover | aux |
| 31 | cover | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 hear | conj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 water | det |
| 33 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 cover | obj |
| 34 | tight | tight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 cover | xcomp |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 get | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 get | cc |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 get | nsubj |
| 38 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 get | aux |
| 39 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 40 get | advmod |
| 40 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 turn | conj |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 get | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turn | punct |
| 43 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 turn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not turn | imperative · do-support | you not said here | the side | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to side=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | strike | future | you | bamboo | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bamboo=Patient | ||||
| 3 | make | future | a great noise | which nsubj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product | ||||
| 4 | hear | future | my grandchild and Pele's brother | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | cover | future | my grandchild and Pele's brother not said here | the water | tight property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme water=Destination | |||
| 6 | not get | can | you | water | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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