Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 91
Hii conveys the idea of lifting on the hip and arm so as to make carrying easy.
Who acts: Hii, idea · What happens: convey, lift, make, carry · To what, where: idea, hip
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Genealogy of the Pele Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hii, idea), 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 | Hii | Hii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 conveys | nsubj |
| 2 | conveys | convey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 idea | det |
| 4 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 conveys | obj |
| 5 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 lifting | mark |
| 6 | lifting | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 idea | acl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 hip | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hip | det |
| 9 | hip | hip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lifting | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 arm | cc |
| 11 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hip | conj |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 make | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 make | mark |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 make | mark |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 lifting | advcl |
| 16 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 make | xcomp |
| 17 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 carrying | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 conveys | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | convey | present | Hii | the idea | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent idea=Topic | ||||
| 2 | lift | gerund | the idea not said here | the hip and arm | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on hip=Destination | ||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | the idea not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | carry | gerund | the idea not said here | easy property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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