Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 84
The chiefess told her brothers to go away into the heavens and find her father, Ku-waha-ilo, a cannibal god.
Who acts: chiefess · What happens: tell, go away, find · To what, where: brothers, heavens, father · 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), 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 | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 5 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 told | iobj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 go | mark |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 told | xcomp |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 go | advmod |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 heavens | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 heavens | det |
| 11 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 go | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 find | cc |
| 13 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 go | conj |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 father | nmod:poss |
| 15 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 find | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 ilo | punct |
| 17 | Ku | Ku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 ilo | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Ku | punct |
| 19 | waha | waha | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ilo | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 waha | punct |
| 21 | ilo | ilo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 father | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 god | punct |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 god | det |
| 24 | cannibal | cannibal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 god | amod |
| 25 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 father | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the chiefess | wife's brothers | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go away not said to happen | to-infinitive | the chiefess not said here | the heavens | away property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into heaven=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | find | infinitive | the chiefess not said here | wife's father and Ku waha ilo and a cannibal god | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Topic |
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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