Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 34
Perhaps if our sister frees him from her tabu he can be the husband of one of us.”
Who acts: sister, One · What happens: free, be · To what, where: One, husband, tabu
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kama-puaa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister, One), 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 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 5 frees | advmod |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 frees | mark |
| 3 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 sister | nmod:poss |
| 4 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 frees | nsubj |
| 5 | frees | free | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 frees | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 tabu | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 tabu | nmod:poss |
| 9 | tabu | tabu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 husband | obl |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 husband | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 husband | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 husband | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 husband | det |
| 14 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 frees | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 one | case |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 husband | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 us | case |
| 18 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 one | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 husband | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 frees | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | free | present | our sister | One | perhaps property | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer he=Source | |||
| 2 | is a | can | One | the husband | Pele's tabu | of one of us | 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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