Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 3
Any person wishing to cross the river would lay fish, sweet potatoes, and other kinds of food on the logs.
Who acts: person · What happens: wish, cross, lay · To what, where: river, fish
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 (person), 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 | Any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 person | det |
| 2 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | wishing | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 person | acl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 cross | mark |
| 5 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wishing | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 river | det |
| 7 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cross | obj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 lay | aux |
| 9 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lay | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 potatoes | punct |
| 12 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 potatoes | amod |
| 13 | potatoes | potato | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fish | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 kinds | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 kinds | cc |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 kinds | amod |
| 17 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lay | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 food | case |
| 19 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 kinds | nmod |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 logs | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 logs | det |
| 22 | logs | log | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 food | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | gerund | any person not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cross not said to happen | to-infinitive | any person not said here | the river | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Patient | ||||
| 3 | lay | would | any person | fish and sweet potatoes | other kinds of food on the logs obl | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Result |
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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