Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 65
Live shall the seer and the slave, Dwell on Hawaii and be at rest, And attain to old age on Kauai.
What happens: dwell, be, attain · To what, where: Hawaii, rest, Live seer
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Moi-keha, the Restless. 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 | Live | live | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 seer | amod |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 seer | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 seer | det |
| 4 | seer | seer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 slave | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 slave | det |
| 7 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seer | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Dwell | punct |
| 9 | Dwell | dwell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 seer | parataxis |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 Hawaii | case |
| 11 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Dwell | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 rest | cc |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 rest | cop |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 rest | case |
| 15 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Dwell | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 attain | punct |
| 17 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 attain | cc |
| 18 | attain | attain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 Dwell | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 age | case |
| 20 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 age | amod |
| 21 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 attain | obl |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 Kauai | case |
| 23 | Kauai | Kauai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 age | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | infinitive | Hawaii | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hawaii=Location | |||||
| 2 | is | infinitive | rest | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | attain | infinitive | to old age on Kauai | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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