Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Opening, sentence 45
No people have use for generic terms until they begin to reason and the language shows that they were better warriors and poets than philosophers and statesmen.
Who acts: people, language · What happens: have, begin, show, be · To what, where: use, better warriors · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, language), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 terms | case |
| 6 | generic | generic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 terms | amod |
| 7 | terms | term | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obl |
| 8 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 10 begin | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 begin | nsubj |
| 10 | begin | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 reason | case |
| 12 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 begin | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 shows | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 language | det |
| 15 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shows | nsubj |
| 16 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 begin | conj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 warriors | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 warriors | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 warriors | cop |
| 20 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 warriors | amod |
| 21 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 shows | ccomp |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 poets | cc |
| 23 | poets | poet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 warriors | conj |
| 24 | than | than | ADP | _ | 25 philosophers | case |
| 25 | philosophers | philosopher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 poets | nmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 statesmen | cc |
| 27 | statesmen | statesman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 philosophers | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | no people | use | for generic terms | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Patient | |||
| 2 | begin | present | people | to reason | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | show | present | the language | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | people | better warriors and poets than philosophers and statesmen | poets than philosophers and statesmen 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 Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66516 (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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