Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kaha-wali, sentence 56
Kaha-wali thought this was a common native and roughly refused her request, saying: “Are you my wife [i.e., my equal in rank], that you should have my holua?”
Who acts: Kaha wali, this, you, woman · What happens: think, be, refuse, say, have, request · To what, where: request, wife, rank, holua · 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 (Kaha wali, this, you, 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 | Kaha | Kaha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wali | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Kaha | punct |
| 3 | wali | wali | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 native | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 native | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 native | det |
| 8 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 native | amod |
| 9 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 refused | cc |
| 11 | roughly | roughly | ADV | _ | 12 refused | advmod |
| 12 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 native | conj |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 request | nmod:poss |
| 14 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 refused | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 saying | punct |
| 16 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 thought | advcl |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 wife | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 wife | punct |
| 19 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 wife | cop |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 wife | nsubj |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 wife | nmod:poss |
| 22 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saying | ccomp |
| 23 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 24 i.e. | punct |
| 24 | i.e. | i.e. | ADV | _ | 22 wife | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 equal | punct |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 equal | nmod:poss |
| 27 | equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 wife | conj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 rank | case |
| 29 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 equal | obl |
| 30 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 22 wife | punct |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 have | punct |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 have | mark |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 have | nsubj |
| 34 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 have | aux |
| 35 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 saying | ccomp |
| 36 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 holua | nmod:poss |
| 37 | holua | holua | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 have | obj |
| 38 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 35 have | punct |
| 39 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Kaha wali | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | this | native property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | refuse | past | this not said here | woman's request | roughly property | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Theme | |||
| 4 | say speech: ask | gerund | Kaha wali not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | you | my wife | my nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 6 | be in a quote | you not said here | rank | my nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | have in a quote | should | you | my holua | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent holua=Patient | ||||
| 8 | request | woman | nom request «communication transitive»: poss=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 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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