Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kaha-wali, sentence 74
She said: ‘Stay with me here, and let us die together.’
Who acts: Pele, us · What happens: say, stay, let, die · To what, where: us · 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 (Pele, us), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 Stay | punct |
| 4 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 Stay | punct |
| 5 | Stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 Stay | obl |
| 8 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 Stay | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 let | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 let | cc |
| 11 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 Stay | conj |
| 12 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 let | obj |
| 13 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 let | xcomp |
| 14 | together | together | ADV | _ | 13 die | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Stay | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 Stay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Pele | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | stay | infinitive | here | with me | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with i=Location | ||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | die | infinitive | us not said here | together property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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