Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 39
The other said, “We will let him be the husband of our ruler.”
Who acts: other, We, husband · What happens: say, let, be · To what, where: god · 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 (other, We, husband), 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 other | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 let | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 let | punct |
| 6 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 let | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 let | aux |
| 8 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 let | obj |
| 10 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 let | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 husband | det |
| 12 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 be | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 ruler | case |
| 14 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 ruler | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 husband | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 let | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the other | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | let in a quote | future | We | god | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be in a quote | infinitive | the husband of our ruler | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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