Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 162
If my prayer is not broken [interrupted or a mistake made], he will be alive.
Who acts: palae, my · What happens: not break, interrupt, make, be, pray · To what, where: prayer, mistake
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 (palae, my), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 broken | mark |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 prayer | nmod:poss |
| 3 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 broken | aux:pass |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 broken | advmod |
| 6 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 alive | advcl |
| 7 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 8 interrupted | punct |
| 8 | interrupted | interrupt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 broken | conj |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 mistake | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 mistake | det |
| 11 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 interrupted | obj |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 mistake | acl |
| 13 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 broken | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 alive | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 alive | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 alive | cop |
| 18 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 alive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not break a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | my prayer | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | interrupt | participle | a mistake | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | make | participle | a mistake not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 4 | is | future | palae | alive property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | pray | my | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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