Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 34
Moo-lau answered, “You have no path through my lands unless you have great strength or can pay the price.”
Who acts: Moo lau, You · What happens: answer, have, pay · To what, where: path, lands, great strength, price · 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 (Moo lau, You), 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 | Moo | moo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lau | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Moo | punct |
| 3 | lau | lau | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
| 7 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 have | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 answered | ccomp |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 path | det |
| 10 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | obj |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 lands | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 lands | nmod:poss |
| 13 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 have | obl |
| 14 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 16 have | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 have | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 have | advcl |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 strength | amod |
| 18 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 have | obj |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 pay | cc |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 pay | aux |
| 21 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 have | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 price | det |
| 23 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pay | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 answered | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Moo lau | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | You | no path | my lands | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Patient | |||
| 3 | have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | great strength | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Patient | ||||
| 4 | pay in a quote | can | you not said here | the price | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Asset |
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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