Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 141
Watch if she strikes with a stick, then run quickly, sit in her lap, and tell her who you are.”
Who acts: you, woman · What happens: watch, strike, run, sit, tell, be · To what, where: lap, woman · 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 (you, woman), 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 | Watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 strikes | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 strikes | nsubj |
| 4 | strikes | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Watch | advcl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 stick | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 stick | det |
| 7 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 strikes | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 run | punct |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 run | advmod |
| 10 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Watch | parataxis |
| 11 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 10 run | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sit | punct |
| 13 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 run | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 lap | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 lap | nmod:poss |
| 16 | lap | lap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sit | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 tell | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 tell | cc |
| 19 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Watch | conj |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 tell | iobj |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 tell | ccomp |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 who | nsubj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 who | cop |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Watch | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Watch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | imperative | you not said here | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | strike a condition, not said to happen | present | woman | with a stick | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with stick=Theme | ||||
| 3 | run | infinitive | then | quickly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sit | infinitive | woman's lap | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in lap=Location | |||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | woman | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | is a | 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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