Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 9
This meant that he must provide a sea-going canoe with mat sails, sufficiently large to carry a number of persons and food for many days.
Who acts: This, Moemoea · What happens: mean, provide, go, carry · To what, where: going canoe, number · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, How Pele Came to Hawaii. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, Moemoea), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 meant | nsubj |
| 2 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 provide | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 provide | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 provide | aux |
| 6 | provide | provide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 meant | ccomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 canoe | det |
| 8 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 going | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 sea | punct |
| 10 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 canoe | amod |
| 11 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 provide | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 sails | case |
| 13 | mat | mat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sails | compound |
| 14 | sails | sail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 provide | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 large | punct |
| 16 | sufficiently | sufficiently | ADV | _ | 17 large | advmod |
| 17 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 meant | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 carry | mark |
| 19 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 large | xcomp |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 number | det |
| 21 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 carry | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 persons | case |
| 23 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 number | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 food | cc |
| 25 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 persons | conj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 days | case |
| 27 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 days | amod |
| 28 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 carry | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 meant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | past | This | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | provide | must | Moemoea | a going canoe | with mat sails | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent canoe=Recipient with sail=Theme | |||
| 3 | go | gerund | sea compound | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | carry | to-infinitive | This not said here | a number of persons and food | day | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Theme |
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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