Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 160
We must take wai-lua (flowing water) and wai-lani (rain) and put them into new calabashes to use in washing the body.
Who acts: We · What happens: take, flow, put, use, wash · To what, where: wai lua, lua, new calabashes, body
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 take | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | aux |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | wai | wai | X | _ | 6 lua | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 lua | punct |
| 6 | lua | lua | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obj |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 water | punct |
| 8 | flowing | flow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 water | amod |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lua | appos |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 9 water | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 lani | cc |
| 12 | wai | wai | X | _ | 14 lani | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 lani | punct |
| 14 | lani | lani | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lua | conj |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 rain | punct |
| 16 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lani | appos |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 rain | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 put | cc |
| 19 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 take | conj |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 put | obj |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 calabashes | case |
| 22 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 calabashes | amod |
| 23 | calabashes | calabash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 put | obl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 use | mark |
| 25 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 put | advcl |
| 26 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 27 washing | mark |
| 27 | washing | wash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 use | advcl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 body | det |
| 29 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 washing | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | must | We | wai lua and wai lani | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lua=Theme | ||||
| 2 | flow | gerund | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | put | infinitive | We not said here | lua | new calabashes | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal | |||
| 4 | use | to-infinitive | We not said here | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | wash | gerund | We not said here | the body | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient |
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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