Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Water of Life [1], sentence 91
Lono told Aukele to put on his magic cloak that now covered him from head to foot.
Who acts: Lono · What happens: tell, put, cover · To what, where: Aukele, magic cloak, head · 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 (Lono), 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 | Lono | Lono | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Aukele | Aukele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 told | iobj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 put | mark |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 told | xcomp |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 cloak | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 cloak | nmod:poss |
| 8 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cloak | amod |
| 9 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obl |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 covered | obj |
| 11 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 covered | advmod |
| 12 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cloak | acl:relcl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 covered | obj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 head | case |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 covered | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 foot | case |
| 17 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 covered | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Lono | Aukele | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent aukele=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | put not said to happen | to-infinitive | Lono not said here | Lono's magic cloak | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on cloak=Destination | ||||
| 3 | cover | past | Lono's magic cloak | head | now | to foot; Lono obj | 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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