Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao, sentence 22
The woman replied: “It is strange that you two have my name while your eyes are unknown to me.
Who acts: woman, Love, you, eyes, my · What happens: reply, be, have, name · To what, where: name, woman · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, Love, you, eyes), 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 woman | det |
| 2 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 strange | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 strange | punct |
| 6 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 strange | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 strange | cop |
| 8 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 replied | parataxis |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 have | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 have | nsubj |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 you | appos |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 strange | advcl |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 name | nmod:poss |
| 14 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 have | obj |
| 15 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 19 unknown | mark |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 unknown | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 unknown | cop |
| 19 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 have | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 me | case |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 unknown | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the woman | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Love | strange property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | you | my name | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | your eyes | the woman = woman | unknown property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | name in a quote | my | nom name «communication 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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