Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Snow-goddess, sentence 29
Aiwohikupua, passing near the cliffs of Hamakua, saw a beautiful woman resting on the rocks above the sea.
Who acts: Aiwohikupua, beautiful woman · What happens: pass, see, rest · To what, where: cliffs, beautiful woman, rocks
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Snow-goddess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Aiwohikupua, beautiful woman), 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 | Aiwohikupua | Aiwohikupua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 passing | punct |
| 3 | passing | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Aiwohikupua | acl |
| 4 | near | near | ADP | _ | 6 cliffs | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cliffs | det |
| 6 | cliffs | cliff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 passing | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Hamakua | case |
| 8 | Hamakua | Hamakua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 cliffs | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Aiwohikupua | punct |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 woman | det |
| 12 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 woman | amod |
| 13 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obj |
| 14 | resting | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 woman | acl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 rocks | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 rocks | det |
| 17 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 resting | obl |
| 18 | above | above | ADP | _ | 20 sea | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sea | det |
| 20 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 resting | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | gerund | Aiwohikupua not said here | the cliffs of Hamakua | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near cliff=Location | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Aiwohikupua | a beautiful woman | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | rest | gerund | a beautiful woman not said here | the rocks | above the sea | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on rock=Location |
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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