Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 31
As soon as she could she said to Hiiaka: “Go far away; go to Kauai; get a husband for us, and bring him to Hawaii.
Who acts: Pele · What happens: say, go, get, bring · To what, where: Hiiaka, Kauai, husband, Hawaii · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hopoe, the Dancing Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pele), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 said | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 could | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 could | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Hiiaka | case |
| 9 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 Go | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Go | punct |
| 12 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 13 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 away | advmod |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 Go | advmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 go | punct |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 Go | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 Kauai | case |
| 18 | Kauai | Kauai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 go | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 get | punct |
| 20 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 go | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 husband | det |
| 22 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 get | obj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 us | case |
| 24 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 get | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 bring | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 bring | cc |
| 27 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 Go | conj |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 bring | obj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 Hawaii | case |
| 30 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 bring | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Pele | Hiiaka | soon property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to hiiaka=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | go in a quote | infinitive | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | infinitive | Kauai | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to kauai=Initial_Location | |||||
| 4 | get in a quote | infinitive | a husband | for us | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent husband=Theme for we=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | bring in a quote | infinitive | husband | Hawaii | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to hawaii=Destination |
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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