Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 192
We want you to consult the gods and tell us their will.”
Who acts: We, you · What happens: want, consult, tell · To what, where: you, gods, us · 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 (We, 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 want | nsubj |
| 2 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 want | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 consult | mark |
| 5 | consult | consult | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 want | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gods | det |
| 7 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 consult | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 tell | cc |
| 9 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 consult | conj |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 tell | iobj |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 will | nmod:poss |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 tell | ccomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 want | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | We | you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | consult not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | the gods | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | us | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient |
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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