Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Changes in Kilauea Crater, sentence 14
“We asked the natives with us to tell us what they knew of the history of this volcano.
Who acts: We, natives · What happens: ask, tell, know · To what, where: natives, us · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Changes in Kilauea Crater. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, natives), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 natives | det |
| 5 | natives | native | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 asked | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 us | case |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 asked | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 tell | mark |
| 9 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 asked | xcomp |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 tell | iobj |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 knew | obj |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 knew | nsubj |
| 13 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 tell | ccomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 history | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 history | det |
| 16 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 knew | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 volcano | case |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 volcano | det |
| 19 | volcano | volcano | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 history | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask in a quote | past | We | the natives | with us | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent native=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the natives not said here | us | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | know in a quote | past | natives = native | of the history of this volcano; what obj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
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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