Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 19
Hiiaka said, “I have no property, but I wager my body, my life, against your property that the dragons die.”
Who acts: Hiiaka, dragons · What happens: say, have, wager, die · To what, where: property, 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 (Hiiaka, dragons), 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 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 have | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | ccomp |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 property | det |
| 8 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wager | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 wager | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 wager | nsubj |
| 12 | wager | wager | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 have | conj |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 body | nmod:poss |
| 14 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wager | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 life | punct |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 life | nmod:poss |
| 17 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 body | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 property | punct |
| 19 | against | against | ADP | _ | 21 property | case |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 property | nmod:poss |
| 21 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wager | parataxis |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 die | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 dragons | det |
| 24 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 die | nsubj |
| 25 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 property | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Hiiaka | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | Hiiaka | no property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent property=Patient | ||||
| 3 | wager in a quote | present | Hiiaka | my body and my life | your property parataxis | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent body=Recipient | |||
| 4 | die in a quote | present | the dragons | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «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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