Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 19
Hiiaka moved softly about the head of her sister Pele, swaying a kahili fringed and beautiful.
Who acts: Hiiaka · What happens: move, sway, fringe · To what, where: kahili
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele’s Long Sleep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hiiaka), 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 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 moved | nsubj |
| 2 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 2 moved | advmod |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 head | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 head | det |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 moved | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 sister | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 sister | nmod:poss |
| 9 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 head | nmod |
| 10 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 sister | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 swaying | punct |
| 12 | swaying | sway | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 moved | advcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 kahili | det |
| 14 | kahili | kahili | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 swaying | obj |
| 15 | fringed | fringe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 kahili | acl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 beautiful | cc |
| 17 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fringed | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 moved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | past | Hiiaka | about the head of Hiiaka's sister; softly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme about head=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | sway | gerund | Hiiaka not said here | a kahili | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location kahili=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fringe | participle | a kahili not said here | tree rules |
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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