Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 41
You will destroy inland; you will destroy toward the sea; but you must not touch my friend—my Hopoe.
Who acts: You · What happens: destroy, not touch · To what, where: friend
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), 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 destroy | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 destroy | aux |
| 3 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | inland | inland | ADV | _ | 3 destroy | advmod |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 destroy | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 destroy | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 destroy | aux |
| 8 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 destroy | conj |
| 9 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 11 sea | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sea | det |
| 11 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 destroy | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 touch | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 touch | cc |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 touch | nsubj |
| 15 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 touch | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 touch | advmod |
| 17 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 destroy | conj |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 friend | nmod:poss |
| 19 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 touch | obj |
| 20 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 Hopoe | punct |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 Hopoe | nmod:poss |
| 22 | Hopoe | Hopoe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 friend | appos |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 destroy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | destroy | future | You | inland property | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | destroy | future | you | toward the sea | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not touch | must | you | my friend | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme friend=Co-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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