Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka Catching a Ghost, sentence 32
She told them she would try, but they must remember to keep the bundle of tears inside the eyes.
Who acts: Hiiaka, girls · What happens: tell, try, remember, keep · To what, where: girls, bundle, eyes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hiiaka Catching a Ghost. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hiiaka, girls), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | iobj |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 try | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 try | aux |
| 6 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 told | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 remember | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 remember | cc |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 remember | nsubj |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 remember | aux |
| 11 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 told | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 keep | mark |
| 13 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 remember | xcomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bundle | det |
| 15 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 keep | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 tears | case |
| 17 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 bundle | nmod |
| 18 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 20 eyes | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 eyes | det |
| 20 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 keep | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Hiiaka | girls = girl | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | try | would | Hiiaka | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | remember | must | girls = girl | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | keep | to-infinitive | girls = girl not said here | the bundle of tears | the eyes | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme inside eye=Location |
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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