Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 23
“Where are you, O Paao,” he cried, “that you prepare a sacrifice for the favour of the gods, when you do not watch your oldest boy?”
Who acts: you, Paao · What happens: be, cry, prepare, not watch, favour · To what, where: sacrifice, oldest boy, gods · 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, Paao), 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 Where | punct |
| 2 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 cried | advmod |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Where | cop |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 Where | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Where | punct |
| 6 | O | O | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Paao | compound |
| 7 | Paao | Paao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Where | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Where | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Where | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 cried | nsubj |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 watch | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 watch | punct |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 prepare | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 prepare | nsubj |
| 16 | prepare | prepare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 watch | advcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 sacrifice | det |
| 18 | sacrifice | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 prepare | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 favour | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 favour | det |
| 21 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 prepare | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 gods | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 gods | det |
| 24 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 favour | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 prepare | punct |
| 26 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 30 watch | mark |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 watch | nsubj |
| 28 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 watch | aux |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 watch | advmod |
| 30 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 cried | ccomp |
| 31 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 boy | nmod:poss |
| 32 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 33 boy | amod |
| 33 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 watch | obj |
| 34 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 30 watch | punct |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | you | O Paao nsubj; where property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Paao | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | prepare in a quote | present | you | a sacrifice | for the favour of the gods | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent sacrifice=Product for favour=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | not watch in a quote | present · do-support | you | your oldest boy | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme | ||||
| 5 | favour in a quote | the gods | nom favour «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/8/23/