Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 177
But I must first ask if the priest from afar will make his home by the burning mountain?”
Who acts: I, priest · What happens: ask, make, burn · To what, where: home
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 (I, priest), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 ask | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 ask | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 ask | aux |
| 4 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 ask | advmod |
| 5 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 make | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 priest | det |
| 8 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 make | nsubj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 afar | case |
| 10 | afar | afar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 priest | nmod |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 make | aux |
| 12 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ask | ccomp |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 home | nmod:poss |
| 14 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 make | obj |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 mountain | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 mountain | det |
| 17 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 mountain | amod |
| 18 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 make | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 ask | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | must | I | first property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | make a condition, not said to happen | future | the priest from afar | priest's home | by the burning mountain | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset home=Product | |||
| 3 | burn | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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