Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 72
The two women said “Aloha” and called to him to come in, but he would not enter.
Who acts: two women, Aloha · What happens: say, call, come in, not enter · To what, where: Aloha · 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 (two women, Aloha), 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 | 3 women | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 women | nummod |
| 3 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Aloha | punct |
| 6 | Aloha | Aloha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | ccomp |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Aloha | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 called | cc |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 called | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 come | mark |
| 13 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 called | advcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADV | _ | 13 come | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 enter | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 enter | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 enter | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 enter | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 enter | advmod |
| 20 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | parataxis |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the two women | Aloha ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | call | past | the two women not said here | Aloha | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | come in | to-infinitive | the two women not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not enter | would | Aloha | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «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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