Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kaha-wali, sentence 78
Then he met his pet hog, Aloi-puaa, and stopped for a moment to salute it by rubbing noses.
Who acts: valley · What happens: meet, stop, salute, rub · To what, where: pet hog, puaa, noses
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kaha-wali. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (valley), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 met | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 met | nsubj |
| 3 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hog | nmod:poss |
| 5 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hog | compound |
| 6 | hog | hog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 met | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 puaa | punct |
| 8 | Aloi | Aloi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 puaa | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Aloi | punct |
| 10 | puaa | puaa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hog | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stopped | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 stopped | cc |
| 13 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 met | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 moment | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 moment | det |
| 16 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stopped | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 salute | mark |
| 18 | salute | salute | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 stopped | advcl |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 salute | obj |
| 20 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 21 rubbing | mark |
| 21 | rubbing | rub | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 salute | advcl |
| 22 | noses | nose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 rubbing | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | valley | valley's pet hog and Aloi puaa | then | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hog=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | stop | past | valley not said here | moment | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | salute | to-infinitive | valley not said here | puaa | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 4 | rub | gerund | valley not said here | noses | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent nose=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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