Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 48
“Moo-lau has a dart Of the wood of the uhi-uhi; [17] A god is Moo-lau, Moo-lau is a god!”
Who acts: Moo lau, 17 · What happens: have, be · To what, where: dart, Moo lau, god
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, 17), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 has | punct |
| 2 | Moo | moo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lau | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Moo | punct |
| 4 | lau | lau | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 dart | det |
| 7 | dart | dart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | obj |
| 8 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 10 wood | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wood | det |
| 10 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dart | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 uhi | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 uhi | det |
| 13 | uhi | uhi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 uhi | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 uhi | punct |
| 15 | uhi | uhi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wood | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 lau | punct |
| 17 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 18 17 | punct |
| 18 | 17 | 17 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 lau | nsubj |
| 19 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 18 17 | punct |
| 20 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 god | det |
| 21 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 17 | nmod:unmarked |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 lau | cop |
| 23 | Moo | moo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lau | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 Moo | punct |
| 25 | lau | lau | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 god | punct |
| 27 | Moo | moo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 lau | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 Moo | punct |
| 29 | lau | lau | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 god | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 god | cop |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 god | det |
| 32 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lau | appos |
| 33 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 32 god | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | Moo lau | a dart of the wood of the uhi uhi | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dart=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | 17 a god | Moo lau | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | Moo lau | a god | tree rules |
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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