Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Destruction of Kamehameha’s Fish-ponds, sentence 36
The prophet said: “From the old time even until now there has been no prophet or priest of the mo-o or dragon clan who has done this thing.
Who acts: prophet, dragon clan · What happens: say, have, be, do · To what, where: prophet, thing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Destruction of Kamehameha’s Fish-ponds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prophet, dragon clan), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 prophet | det |
| 2 | prophet | prophet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 “ | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 6 | From | from | ADP | _ | 9 time | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 time | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 time | amod |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 “ | obl |
| 10 | even | even | ADV | _ | 11 until | advmod |
| 11 | until | until | ADP | _ | 9 time | conj |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 has | advmod |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 has | expl |
| 14 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 until | advcl |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 prophet | cop |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 prophet | det |
| 17 | prophet | prophet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 has | obj |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 priest | cc |
| 19 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 prophet | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 o | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 o | det |
| 22 | mo | mo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 o | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 mo | punct |
| 24 | o | o | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 priest | nmod |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 clan | cc |
| 26 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 clan | compound |
| 27 | clan | clan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 o | conj |
| 28 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 done | nsubj |
| 29 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 done | aux |
| 30 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 clan | acl:relcl |
| 31 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 thing | det |
| 32 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 done | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the prophet | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | the prophet not said here | there | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | is a in a quote | participle | no prophet or priest of the mo o or dragon clan | priest of the mo o or dragon clan conj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do in a quote | present · perfect | dragon clan | this thing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
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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