Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 159
We must gather all kinds of ferns and maile and lehua and flowers from the mountains.
Who acts: We · What happens: gather, maile · To what, where: kinds, lehua
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 (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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 gather | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 gather | aux |
| 3 | gather | gather | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 kinds | det |
| 5 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gather | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 ferns | case |
| 7 | ferns | fern | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 kinds | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 maile | cc |
| 9 | maile | maile | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 gather | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 lehua | cc |
| 11 | lehua | lehua | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 maile | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 flowers | cc |
| 13 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 lehua | conj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 mountains | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 mountains | det |
| 16 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 flowers | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gather | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | must | We | all kinds of ferns | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Theme | ||||
| 2 | maile | infinitive | We not said here | lehua and flowers from the mountains | tree rules |
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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