Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Snow-goddess, sentence 33
Aiwohikupua went away to Kauai, but he soon returned clad in the white cloak and wearing a beautiful helmet of red feathers.
Who acts: Aiwohikupua · What happens: go away, clad, wear · To what, where: Kauai, white cloak, beautiful helmet
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), 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 | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Kauai | case |
| 5 | Kauai | Kauai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 clad | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 clad | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 clad | nsubj |
| 9 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 clad | advmod |
| 10 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 clad | aux:pass |
| 11 | clad | clad | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 went | parataxis |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 cloak | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cloak | det |
| 14 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 cloak | amod |
| 15 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 clad | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 wearing | cc |
| 17 | wearing | wear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 clad | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 helmet | det |
| 19 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 helmet | amod |
| 20 | helmet | helmet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wearing | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 feathers | case |
| 22 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 feathers | amod |
| 23 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 helmet | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away | past | Aiwohikupua | Kauai | away property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to kauai=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | clad | past · passive | Kauai | the white cloak | soon property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | wear | gerund | a beautiful helmet of red feathers | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent helmet=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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