Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 9
They had given each other the universal Polynesian greeting—“Love to you,” with the reply, “Love indeed.”
Who acts: hills · What happens: give · To what, where: other
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 (hills), 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 given | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 other | det |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 given | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 greeting | det |
| 7 | universal | universal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 greeting | amod |
| 8 | Polynesian | polynesian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 greeting | amod |
| 9 | greeting | greeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 given | obj |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Love | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Love | punct |
| 12 | Love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 greeting | appos |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 you | case |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 Love | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 reply | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 reply | det |
| 19 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 given | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Love | punct |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 Love | punct |
| 22 | Love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 reply | appos |
| 23 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 22 Love | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 Love | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 Love | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · perfect | hills = hill | each other | with the reply; the universal Polynesian greeting obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent other=Recipient greeting=Theme |
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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