Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 97
When this was done, Hiiaka said: “To-morrow let the tabu be established on land and sea.
Who acts: Hiiaka · What happens: do, say, let, establish · To what, where: this, tabu, land · 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 (Hiiaka), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 done | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 done | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | aux:pass |
| 4 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 said | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 done | punct |
| 6 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 let | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 let | punct |
| 10 | To | to | ADP | _ | 12 morrow | case |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 To | punct |
| 12 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 let | obl |
| 13 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tabu | det |
| 15 | tabu | tabu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 established | nsubj |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 established | aux:pass |
| 17 | established | establish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 let | ccomp |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 land | case |
| 19 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 established | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 sea | cc |
| 21 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 land | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · passive | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Hiiaka | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | let in a quote | past | to morrow | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | establish in a quote | infinitive · passive | the tabu | land and sea | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme on land=Source |
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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