Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 91
You must establish a tabu for twenty days, and there must be quiet.
Who acts: You · What happens: establish, be · To what, where: tabu
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 (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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 establish | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 establish | aux |
| 3 | establish | establish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 tabu | det |
| 5 | tabu | tabu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 establish | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 days | case |
| 7 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 days | nummod |
| 8 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 establish | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 quiet | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 be | cc |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 be | expl |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 be | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 quiet | cop |
| 14 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 establish | parataxis |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 establish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | establish | must | You | a tabu | day | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tabu=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | infinitive | quiet property | 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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