Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 90
He said, “She is the watchman for my land, and no man could come here if she were alive,” and he was angry.
Who acts: husband, Pele, man · What happens: say, be, come · To what, where: watchman · 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 (husband, Pele, man), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 watchman | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 watchman | punct |
| 5 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 watchman | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 watchman | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 watchman | det |
| 8 | watchman | watchman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | ccomp |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 land | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 land | nmod:poss |
| 11 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 watchman | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 come | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 come | cc |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 man | det |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 come | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 come | aux |
| 17 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | conj |
| 18 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 come | advmod |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 alive | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 alive | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 alive | cop |
| 22 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 come | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 alive | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 alive | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 angry | cc |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 angry | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 angry | cop |
| 28 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 alive | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | husband | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | Pele | the watchman | for my land | tree rules | |||
| 3 | come in a quote | could | no man | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | Pele | alive property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | past | husband | angry property | tree rules |
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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