Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 23
He said: “We must not call this a boat for war, but of discovery, to find new land.”
Who acts: leaf, We · What happens: say, not call, find · To what, where: this, new land · 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 (leaf, We), 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 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 call | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 call | punct |
| 5 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 call | nsubj |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 call | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 call | advmod |
| 8 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 9 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 call | obj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 boat | det |
| 11 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 call | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 war | case |
| 13 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 call | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 discovery | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 discovery | cc |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 discovery | case |
| 17 | discovery | discovery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 call | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 find | punct |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 find | mark |
| 20 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 call | conj |
| 21 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 land | amod |
| 22 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 find | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 call | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | leaf | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not call in a quote | must | We | this | for war; of discovery; a boat obj | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme boat=Result | |||
| 3 | find in a quote | to-infinitive | We not said here | new land | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Topic |
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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