Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 40
“Cut open my stomach, O my uncle, and I shall be proved innocent.”
What happens: cut, prove · To what, where: stomach, Lonopele
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: 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 Cut | punct |
| 2 | Cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Cut | xcomp |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 stomach | nmod:poss |
| 5 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Cut | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 uncle | punct |
| 7 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 9 uncle | discourse |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 9 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Cut | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 proved | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 proved | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 proved | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 proved | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 proved | aux:pass |
| 15 | proved | prove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Cut | conj |
| 16 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 proved | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Cut | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut in a quote | participle | my stomach | my uncle obl; open property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset stomach=Product | ||||
| 2 | prove in a quote | shall · passive | Lonopele | innocent property | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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