Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 196
Hiiaka arose and danced gloriously before the hula god and chanted while she danced—
Who acts: Hiiaka · What happens: arise, dance, chant
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 arose | nsubj |
| 2 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 danced | cc |
| 4 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 arose | conj |
| 5 | gloriously | gloriously | ADV | _ | 4 danced | advmod |
| 6 | before | before | ADP | _ | 9 god | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 god | det |
| 8 | hula | hula | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 god | compound |
| 9 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 danced | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 chanted | cc |
| 11 | chanted | chant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 god | conj |
| 12 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 14 danced | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 danced | nsubj |
| 14 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 chanted | advcl |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | Hiiaka | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | dance | past | Hiiaka not said here | before the hula god | gloriously property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before god=Location | |||
| 3 | chant | participle | Hiiaka not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | dance | past | Hiiaka | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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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