Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 109
“Take breath strong and deep and tell me what the winds say.”
Who acts: you, winds · What happens: take, tell, say · To what, where: breath, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Paao From Samoa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, winds), 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 | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 2 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Take | obj |
| 4 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Take | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 deep | cc |
| 6 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 strong | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 tell | cc |
| 8 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Take | conj |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 tell | iobj |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 say | obj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 winds | det |
| 12 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 say | nsubj |
| 13 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 tell | ccomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | imperative | you not said here | breath | strong property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | the winds | what obj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
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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