Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 38
You may eat all other places of ours, but you must not touch my own lehua grove, my delight.
Who acts: You, my · What happens: eat, not touch, delight · To what, where: other places, own lehua grove
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 (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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 eat | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 eat | aux |
| 3 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 places | det |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 places | amod |
| 6 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 eat | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 ours | case |
| 8 | ours | our | PRON | Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 places | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 touch | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 touch | cc |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 touch | nsubj |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 touch | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 touch | advmod |
| 14 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 eat | conj |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 grove | nmod:poss |
| 16 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 grove | amod |
| 17 | lehua | lehua | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 grove | compound |
| 18 | grove | grove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 touch | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 delight | punct |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 delight | nmod:poss |
| 21 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 grove | appos |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 eat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | may | You | all other places of ours | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not touch | must | you | my own lehua grove | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme grove=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | delight | my | nom delight «feeling intransitive»: 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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