Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 20
Some days passed and Aukele said, “To-morrow we will come to a land where a woman is the ruler.
Who acts: days, Aukele, we, woman · What happens: pass, say, come, be · To what, where: morrow, ruler · 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 (days, Aukele, we, 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 days | det |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 said | cc |
| 5 | Aukele | Aukele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 come | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 come | punct |
| 9 | To | to | ADP | _ | 11 morrow | case |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 To | punct |
| 11 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 come | obl |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 come | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 come | aux |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 land | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 land | det |
| 17 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 come | obl |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 ruler | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 woman | det |
| 20 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ruler | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 ruler | cop |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 ruler | det |
| 23 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 land | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | some days | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Aukele | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come in a quote | future | we | morrow | to a land | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to morrow=Initial_Location to land=Destination | |||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | a woman | the ruler | 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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