Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons, sentence 38
The other answered, “She is not as strong as Pana-ewa; let us tell our brother.”
Who acts: other, Hiiaka, us · What happens: answer, not be, let, tell · To what, where: us, brother · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other, Hiiaka, us), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 other | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 strong | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 strong | punct |
| 6 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 strong | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 strong | cop |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 strong | advmod |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | _ | 10 strong | advmod |
| 10 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 answered | conj |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 ewa | case |
| 12 | Pana | Pana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 ewa | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Pana | punct |
| 14 | ewa | ewa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 strong | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 let | punct |
| 16 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 answered | ccomp |
| 17 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 let | obj |
| 18 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 let | xcomp |
| 19 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 brother | nmod:poss |
| 20 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tell | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 tell | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the other | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not is in a quote | present | Hiiaka | as Pana ewa; strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | our brother | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient |
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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