Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 31
“How is it, Taunoa,” said another, “that you, a chief of Nanaulu, should be present at the call of Kii in the interest of Ulu?”
Who acts: you · What happens: be, say, call, interest · To what, where: voice, another, call, Kii, Ulu · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Sons of Kii. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 it | advmod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 it | cop |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Taunoa | punct |
| 6 | Taunoa | Taunoa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 it | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Taunoa | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 it | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 present | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 present | punct |
| 13 | that | that | ADP | _ | 14 you | case |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 present | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 chief | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 chief | det |
| 17 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 you | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Nanaulu | case |
| 19 | Nanaulu | Nanaulu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 chief | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 you | punct |
| 21 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 present | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 present | cop |
| 23 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | ccomp |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 call | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 call | det |
| 26 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 present | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Kii | case |
| 28 | Kii | Kii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 call | nmod |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 interest | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 interest | det |
| 31 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 present | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Ulu | case |
| 33 | Ulu | Ulu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 interest | nmod |
| 34 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 23 present | punct |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | voice | Taunoa appos | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | another | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent another=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | should | you | the call of Kii | in the interest of Ulu; present property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | call in a quote | Kii | nom call «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | interest in a quote | Ulu | nom interest «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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