Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 39
Lonopele became angry, and cried out: “May the god, Kanaloa, curse you and break your body into fragments, for your falsehood.”
Who acts: Lonopele · What happens: become, cry out, curse, break · To what, where: May god, you, body, fragments · 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 (Lonopele), 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 | Lonopele | Lonopele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 became | nsubj |
| 2 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 became | xcomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 cried | cc |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 became | conj |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 cried | compound:prt |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 god | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 god | punct |
| 10 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 god | amod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 god | det |
| 12 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cried | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Kanaloa | punct |
| 14 | Kanaloa | Kanaloa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 god | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 curse | punct |
| 16 | curse | curse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 cried | parataxis |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 curse | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 break | cc |
| 19 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 curse | conj |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 body | nmod:poss |
| 21 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 break | obj |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 fragments | case |
| 23 | fragments | fragment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 break | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 falsehood | punct |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 falsehood | case |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 falsehood | nmod:poss |
| 27 | falsehood | falsehood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 break | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 became | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | Lonopele | angry property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | cry out speech: express | past | Lonopele not said here | the May god | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | curse in a quote | present | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||||
| 4 | break in a quote | infinitive | your body | into fragments result; for your falsehood | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent body=Patient into fragment=Result |
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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