Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 184
Then she said: “You are my husband and I am your wife, but the call has come and I cannot remain with you.
Who acts: Lohiau, You, call · What happens: say, be, come, not remain · To what, where: husband, wife · 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 (Lohiau, You, call), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 husband | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 husband | punct |
| 6 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 husband | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 husband | cop |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 husband | nmod:poss |
| 9 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | ccomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 wife | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 wife | nsubj |
| 12 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 wife | cop |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wife | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 husband | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 come | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 come | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 call | det |
| 18 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 come | nsubj |
| 19 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 come | aux |
| 20 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 said | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 remain | cc |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 remain | nsubj |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 remain | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 remain | advmod |
| 25 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 come | conj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 you | case |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 remain | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Lohiau | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | You | my husband and your wife | my nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | Lohiau | your wife | your nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 4 | come in a quote | present · perfect | the call | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | not remain in a quote | can | Lohiau | with you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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