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Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 111

She said, “It is not for me to give an olioli mele [a chant] for your native dance, but I will call the guardian winds of your islands Niihau and Kauai, O Lohiau! and they will answer my call.”

Who acts: chief, dance, Pele, your, my · What happens: say, not be, give, call, answer, dance · To what, where: olioli mele, guardian winds, call, islands · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele’s Long Sleep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chief, dance, Pele, your), 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

nsubjpunctpunctnsubjcopadvmodcaseccompmarkccompdetcompoundobjpunctdetappospunctcasenmod:possamodoblpunctccnsubjauxparataxisdetamodobjcasenmod:possnmodapposccconjpunctcompoundconjpunctccnsubjauxconjnmod:possobjpunctpunctrootShePRONsaidVERB,PUNCT“PUNCTItPRONisAUXnotPARTforADPmePRONtoPARTgiveVERBanDETolioliNOUNmeleNOUN[PUNCTaDETchantNOUN]PUNCTforADPyourPRONnativeADJdanceNOUN,PUNCTbutCCONJIPRONwillAUXcallVERBtheDETguardianADJwindsNOUNofADPyourPRONislandsNOUNNiihauPROPNandCCONJKauaiPROPN,PUNCTOPROPNLohiauPROPN!PUNCTandCCONJtheyPRONwillAUXanswerVERBmyPRONcallNOUN.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 saidnsubj
2saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3,,PUNCT_9 mepunct
4“"PUNCT_9 mepunct
5ItitPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 mensubj
6isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin9 mecop
7notnotPARTPolarity=Neg9 meadvmod
8forforADP_9 mecase
9meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs2 saidccomp
10totoPART_11 givemark
11givegiveVERBVerbForm=Inf2 saidccomp
12anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art14 meledet
13olioliolioliNOUNNumber=Sing14 melecompound
14melemeleNOUNNumber=Sing11 giveobj
15[[PUNCT_17 chantpunct
16aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art17 chantdet
17chantchantNOUNNumber=Sing14 meleappos
18]]PUNCT_17 chantpunct
19forforADP_22 dancecase
20youryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs22 dancenmod:poss
21nativenativeADJDegree=Pos22 danceamod
22dancedanceNOUNNumber=Sing11 giveobl
23,,PUNCT_27 callpunct
24butbutCCONJ_27 callcc
25IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs27 callnsubj
26willwillAUXVerbForm=Fin27 callaux
27callcallVERBVerbForm=Inf2 saidparataxis
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 windsdet
29guardianguardianADJDegree=Pos30 windsamod
30windswindNOUNNumber=Plur27 callobj
31ofofADP_33 islandscase
32youryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs33 islandsnmod:poss
33islandsislandNOUNNumber=Plur30 windsnmod
34NiihauNiihauPROPNNumber=Sing33 islandsappos
35andandCCONJ_36 Kauaicc
36KauaiKauaiPROPNNumber=Sing34 Niihauconj
37,,PUNCT_39 Lohiaupunct
38OOPROPNNumber=Sing39 Lohiaucompound
39LohiauLohiauPROPNNumber=Sing34 Niihauconj
40!!PUNCT_27 callpunct
41andandCCONJ_44 answercc
42theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs44 answernsubj
43willwillAUXVerbForm=Fin44 answeraux
44answeranswerVERBVerbForm=Inf2 saidconj
45mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs46 callnmod:poss
46callcallNOUNNumber=Sing44 answerobj
47..PUNCT_44 answerpunct
48”"PUNCT_44 answerpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: expresspastchiefvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2not is in a quotepresentdancefor chieftree rules
3give in a quoteto-infinitivea olioli melefor your native dancevn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent mele=Theme for dance=Asset
4call in a quotefuturechiefthe guardian winds of your islandsvn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wind=Recipient
5answer speech: assert in a quotefuturePelemy callvn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent call=Eventuality
6dance in a quoteyournom dance «communication transitive»: poss=agent
7wind in a quoteyour islandsnom wind «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient
8call in a quotemynom call «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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