Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao, sentence 38
The woman said: “I will surely remember your words, but you are so beautiful and have such power that I think you are Pele.
Who acts: woman, you, your · What happens: say, remember, be, have, think, word · To what, where: words, such power, Pele · 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, you, your), 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 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 remember | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 remember | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 remember | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 remember | aux |
| 8 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 9 remember | advmod |
| 9 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 words | nmod:poss |
| 11 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 remember | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 beautiful | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 beautiful | cc |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 beautiful | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 beautiful | cop |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 beautiful | advmod |
| 17 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 remember | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 have | cc |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 remember | conj |
| 20 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 power | amod |
| 21 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 have | obj |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 think | obj |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 think | nsubj |
| 24 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 power | acl:relcl |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 Pele | nsubj |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 Pele | cop |
| 27 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 think | ccomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | remember in a quote | future | the woman = woman | your words | surely property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent word=Theme | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | you | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have in a quote | present | the woman = woman not said here | such power | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient | ||||
| 5 | think speech: other in a quote | present | the woman = woman | such power | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | present | you | Pele | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | word in a quote | your | nom word «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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