Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kaha-wali, sentence 47
The chief replied: “What does an old woman like you want with a holua?
Who acts: chief, you · What happens: reply, do, want · To what, where: old woman · 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 (chief, you), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 chief | det |
| 2 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 does | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 does | punct |
| 6 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 does | nsubj |
| 7 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 replied | ccomp |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 woman | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 woman | amod |
| 10 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 does | obj |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 want | case |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 want | nsubj |
| 13 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 does | conj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 holua | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 holua | det |
| 16 | holua | holua | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 want | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: ask | past | the chief | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | present | a old woman | What nsubj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | want in a quote | present | you | with a holua | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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