Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kaha-wali, sentence 86
Thus did Kaha-wali learn that he must not abuse an old woman, for she might be Pele.
Who acts: Kaha wali, wali, woman · What happens: learn, not abuse, be · 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 (Kaha wali, wali, 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 6 learn | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 learn | aux |
| 3 | Kaha | Kaha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 wali | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Kaha | punct |
| 5 | wali | wali | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 learn | nsubj |
| 6 | learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 abuse | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 abuse | nsubj |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 abuse | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 abuse | advmod |
| 11 | abuse | abuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 learn | ccomp |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 woman | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 woman | amod |
| 14 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 abuse | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Pele | punct |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 Pele | case |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 Pele | nsubj |
| 18 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 Pele | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 Pele | cop |
| 20 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 abuse | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 learn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | past · do-support | Kaha wali | thus property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not abuse | must | wali | a old woman | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | might | woman | for 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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