Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 56
(To wash her eyes and cure them.)
What happens: wash, cure · To what, where: eyes
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kama-puaa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 wash | punct |
| 2 | To | to | PART | _ | 3 wash | mark |
| 3 | wash | wash | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wash | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 cure | cc |
| 7 | cure | cure | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 wash | conj |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cure | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wash | punct |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 3 wash | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wash | to-infinitive | e's eyes | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | |||||
| 2 | cure | infinitive | eyes = eye | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer they=Source |
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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