Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Na Puu O Pele, sentence 22
“Aloha oukou [Friendship to you]!” was the greeting to them.
Who acts: Aloha oukou · What happens: be · To what, where: greeting, Hawaiians
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Na Puu O Pele. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Aloha oukou), 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 oukou | punct |
| 2 | Aloha | Aloha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 oukou | compound |
| 3 | oukou | oukou | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 greeting | nsubj |
| 4 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 5 Friendship | punct |
| 5 | Friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 oukou | appos |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 Friendship | nmod |
| 8 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 5 Friendship | punct |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 oukou | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 oukou | punct |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 greeting | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 greeting | det |
| 13 | greeting | greeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 greeting | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 greeting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Aloha oukou | the greeting | Hawaiians = hawaiian | tree rules |
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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