Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 37

I go after your husband but I lay my charge upon you: You must take care of my lehua forest and not permit it to be injured.

Who acts: I, You, my · What happens: go, lie, take, not permit, injure, charge · To what, where: charge, care

This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hopoe, the Dancing Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, You, my), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 go	nsubj
2	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	after	after	ADP	_	5 husband	case
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 husband	nmod:poss
5	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 go	obl
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 lay	cc
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 lay	nsubj
8	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 go	conj
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 charge	nmod:poss
10	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lay	obj
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 you	case
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 lay	obl
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 take	punct
14	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 take	nsubj
15	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 take	aux
16	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 go	parataxis
17	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 take	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 forest	case
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 forest	nmod:poss
20	lehua	lehua	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 forest	compound
21	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 take	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 permit	cc
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 permit	advmod
24	permit	permit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 take	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 permit	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	28 injured	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 injured	aux:pass
28	injured	injure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 permit	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	I		after your husband		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lie	past	I	my charge		upon you	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location charge=Theme
3	take	must	You	care		of my lehua forest	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of forest=Initial_Location
4	not permit	infinitive	You not said here	care			vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	injure	to-infinitive · passive	You not said here				tree rules
6	charge		my				nom charge «act 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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🌲 Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 37

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 37