Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 154
She took the bundle of the body of Lohiau and said: “We have the body and the spirit, we are ready now to go down to our house.”
Who acts: rainbow, We · What happens: take, say, have, be, go down · To what, where: bundle, body · 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 (rainbow, We), 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 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bundle | det |
| 4 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 body | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 body | det |
| 7 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bundle | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Lohiau | case |
| 9 | Lohiau | Lohiau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 body | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 14 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 have | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 body | det |
| 17 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 spirit | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 spirit | det |
| 20 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 body | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 ready | punct |
| 22 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 ready | nsubj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 ready | cop |
| 24 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 have | conj |
| 25 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 ready | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 go | mark |
| 27 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 ready | xcomp |
| 28 | down | down | ADV | _ | 27 go | advmod |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 house | case |
| 30 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 house | nmod:poss |
| 31 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 go | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | rainbow | the bundle of the body of Lohiau | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | rainbow not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | We | the body and the spirit | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | we | now | ready property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | go down in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | to our house; down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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