Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 86
They must tell him that she had given all her treasures to her husband—stars, lands, and seas.
Who acts: father, Pele · What happens: tell, give, treasure · To what, where: chiefess, treasures, husband · 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 (father, Pele), 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 | 3 tell | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 tell | aux |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | iobj |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 given | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 given | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 given | aux |
| 8 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 tell | advcl |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 treasures | det:predet |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 treasures | nmod:poss |
| 11 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 given | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 husband | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 husband | nmod:poss |
| 14 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 treasures | nmod |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 stars | punct |
| 16 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 treasures | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lands | punct |
| 18 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 stars | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 seas | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 seas | cc |
| 21 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 stars | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | must | father | chiefess | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | give | past · perfect | Pele | Pele's treasures and stars and lands and seas | Pele's husband | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme to husband=Recipient | |||
| 3 | treasure | Pele | to Pele's husband | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
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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