Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 22
They said, “Did you build this boat, and have you its chant?”
Who acts: Aukele, you, boat · What happens: say, build, have, chant · To what, where: boat, chant · 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 (Aukele, you, boat), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 build | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 build | punct |
| 5 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 build | aux |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 build | nsubj |
| 7 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 boat | det |
| 9 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 build | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 have | cc |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 build | conj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 have | nsubj |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 chant | nmod:poss |
| 15 | chant | chant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 have | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 build | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 build | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | Aukele | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | build in a quote | past · do-support | you | this boat | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Product | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | you | boat's chant | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chant=Patient | ||||
| 4 | chant in a quote | boat | nom chant «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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