Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 107
Let it call, You are calling to me.
Who acts: you, precipice · What happens: let, call · To what, where: precipice, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pili and Noho. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, precipice), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 calling | punct |
| 5 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 calling | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 calling | aux |
| 7 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 call | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 me | case |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 calling | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | precipice | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call | infinitive | precipice not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | call | present · progressive | You | me | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to i=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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