Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 42
They went home and told the chiefess: “We went to the precipice; there was no one there.
Who acts: Aukele, We, one · What happens: go, tell, be · To what, where: chiefess, precipice · 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, We, one), 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 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | home | home | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 told | cc |
| 5 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 chiefess | det |
| 7 | chiefess | chiefess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 told | iobj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 10 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 told | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 precipice | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 precipice | det |
| 14 | precipice | precipice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 was | punct |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 was | expl |
| 17 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | parataxis |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 one | det |
| 19 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 was | nsubj |
| 20 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 one | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Aukele | home property | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | Aukele not said here | the chiefess | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent chiefess=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | past | We | the precipice | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to precipice=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | be in a quote | past | no one | there | 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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