Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao, sentence 39
Take my pig now and end my trouble.”
Who acts: you, my · What happens: take, end, trouble · To what, where: pig, trouble
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 (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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 pig | nmod:poss |
| 3 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obj |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Take | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 end | cc |
| 6 | end | end | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 trouble | nmod:poss |
| 8 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 end | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | my pig | now | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument pig=Destination | |||
| 2 | end | infinitive | you not said here | my trouble | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality trouble=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | trouble | my | nom trouble «cognition 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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