Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kaha-wali, sentence 1
For a long, long time the Hawaiians have had the proverb “Never abuse an old woman; she might be Pele.”
Who acts: Hawaiians, woman · What happens: have, not abuse, be · To what, where: proverb, old woman, Pele · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kaha-wali. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hawaiians, woman), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 time | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 long | punct |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Hawaiians | det |
| 8 | Hawaiians | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 had | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 had | aux |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 proverb | det |
| 12 | proverb | proverb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obj |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 abuse | punct |
| 14 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 abuse | advmod |
| 15 | abuse | abuse | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 had | parataxis |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 woman | det |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 woman | amod |
| 18 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 abuse | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 Pele | punct |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 Pele | nsubj |
| 21 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 Pele | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 Pele | cop |
| 23 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 abuse | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 abuse | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 abuse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present · perfect | the Hawaiians | the proverb | time | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not abuse in a quote | infinitive | a old woman | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | might | woman | Pele | 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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