Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 8
One dragon said to the other, “Here comes one of our family.”
Who acts: One dragon · What happens: say, come · To what, where: other, one · 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 (One dragon), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 dragon | nummod |
| 2 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 other | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 other | det |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 said | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 comes | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 comes | punct |
| 9 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 comes | advmod |
| 10 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 comes | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 family | case |
| 13 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 family | nmod:poss |
| 14 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 one | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 comes | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | One dragon | the other | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to other=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | present | one of our family | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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