Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 93
You must have a house made of ti [18] leaves for the dead body and make it very tight on all sides.”
Who acts: You, house · What happens: have, make, leave · To what, where: 18, house, sides
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, house), 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 have | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | aux |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 leaves | nsubj |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 house | acl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 ti | case |
| 8 | ti | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 made | obl |
| 9 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 10 18 | punct |
| 10 | 18 | 18 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 made | obl |
| 11 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 10 18 | punct |
| 12 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | parataxis |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 body | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 body | det |
| 15 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 body | amod |
| 16 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 leaves | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 make | cc |
| 18 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 leaves | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 make | obj |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 tight | advmod |
| 21 | tight | tight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 make | xcomp |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 sides | case |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 sides | det |
| 24 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 make | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | must | You | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | make | participle | a house not said here | 18 | of ti = it | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||
| 3 | leave | present | a house | for the dead body | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for body=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | make | present | a house not said here | house | all sides | tight property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
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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