Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Na Puu O Pele, sentence 25
Surely one cannot expect it to add any story to Hawaiian mythology.”
Who acts: one, place · What happens: not expect, add · To what, where: place, story
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 (one, place), 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 | Surely | surely | ADV | _ | 5 expect | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 expect | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 expect | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 expect | advmod |
| 5 | expect | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 expect | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 add | mark |
| 8 | add | add | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 expect | xcomp |
| 9 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 story | det |
| 10 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 add | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 mythology | case |
| 12 | Hawaiian | hawaiian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 mythology | amod |
| 13 | mythology | mythology | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 add | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 expect | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 expect | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not expect | can | one | place | surely property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | add speech: assert not said to happen | to-infinitive | place not said here | any story | to Hawaiian mythology | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent story=Patient to mythology=Co-Patient |
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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