Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 37
“No. I have fruit at home, but better are the baked dog and fish.
Who acts: father · What happens: have, bake, be · To what, where: No., home, better baked dog
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 (father), 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 | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 2 | No. | no. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 home | case |
| 7 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 better | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 better | cc |
| 10 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 dog | amod |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 dog | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dog | det |
| 13 | baked | bake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 dog | amod |
| 14 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 fish | cc |
| 16 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dog | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | the father = father | No. | home | fruit obj | tree rules | ||
| 2 | bake in a quote | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | the better baked dog and fish | fish conj | tree rules |
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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