Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 41

The women told him that they had been sent to kill him, but that they would say they did not find him; then other messengers would be sent.

Who acts: women, Aukele · What happens: tell, send, kill, say, not find · To what, where: god, Aukele, other messengers · 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 (women, 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 women	det
2	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 sent	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sent	nsubj:pass
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sent	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 sent	aux:pass
9	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 told	ccomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 kill	mark
11	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 sent	advcl
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 kill	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 say	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 say	cc
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 say	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 say	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 say	aux
18	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	conj
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 find	nsubj
20	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 find	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 find	advmod
22	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 say	ccomp
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 find	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 sent	punct
25	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 messengers	advmod
26	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 messengers	amod
27	messengers	messenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 sent	nsubj:pass
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 sent	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 sent	aux:pass
30	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 told	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the women		god	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	send	past · perfect · passive		Aukele		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	kill	to-infinitive		god		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	say speech: assert	would	Aukele			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not find	past · do-support	Aukele	god		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
6	send	would · passive		other messengers		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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🌲 Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 41

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 41