Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 199
They show that you must gather the chiefs upon whom you can depend and have the hard wood prepared for making spears.”
Who acts: gods, you · What happens: show, gather, depend, have, prepare, make · To what, where: chiefs, hard wood, spears · 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 (gods, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 show | nsubj |
| 2 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 gather | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 gather | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 gather | aux |
| 6 | gather | gather | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 show | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 chiefs | det |
| 8 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 gather | obj |
| 9 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 13 depend | mark |
| 10 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 depend | obj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 depend | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 depend | aux |
| 13 | depend | depend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 gather | advcl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 have | cc |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 depend | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 wood | det |
| 17 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 wood | amod |
| 18 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | obj |
| 19 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 wood | acl |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 making | mark |
| 21 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 prepared | advcl |
| 22 | spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 making | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 show | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | gods = god | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | gather | must | you | the chiefs | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chief=Theme | ||||
| 3 | depend | can | you | whom obj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | infinitive | you not said here | the hard wood | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Patient | ||||
| 5 | prepare | participle | the hard wood not said here | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | make | gerund | spears | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset spear=Product |
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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