Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 35
The chiefess called two women, and told them to see who it was, and if they found any one, kill him.
Who acts: chiefess, watchdog, Aukele · What happens: call, tell, see, be, find, kill · To what, where: two women, Aukele, one, chiefess · 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 (chiefess, watchdog, Aukele), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 chiefess | det |
| 2 | chiefess | chiefess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 told | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 chiefess | acl |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 women | nummod |
| 5 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 called | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 told | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 told | cc |
| 8 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 told | iobj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 see | mark |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 told | xcomp |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 see | ccomp |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 who | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 who | cop |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 kill | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 kill | cc |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 found | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 found | nsubj |
| 19 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 kill | advcl |
| 20 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 one | det |
| 21 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 found | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 found | punct |
| 23 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 told | conj |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 kill | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | the chiefess not said here | two women | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the chiefess | Aukele | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | the chiefess not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | watchdog | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | find a condition, not said to happen | past | Aukele | any one | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic | ||||
| 6 | kill | infinitive | the chiefess not said here | chiefess | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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