Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 50
Hiiaka rose to prepare for the journey, but Pele’s impatience at every moment’s delay was so great that she forced Hiiaka away without food or extra clothing.
Who acts: Hiiaka, impatience · What happens: rise, prepare, be, force away · To what, where: Hiiaka
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 (Hiiaka, impatience), 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 rose | nsubj |
| 2 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 prepare | mark |
| 4 | prepare | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 rose | xcomp |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 journey | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 journey | det |
| 7 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 prepare | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 great | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 great | cc |
| 10 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 impatience | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 Pele | case |
| 12 | impatience | impatience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 great | nsubj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 delay | case |
| 14 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 moment | det |
| 15 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 delay | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 moment | case |
| 17 | delay | delay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 impatience | nmod |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 great | cop |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 great | advmod |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 rose | conj |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 forced | mark |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 forced | nsubj |
| 23 | forced | force | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 great | advcl |
| 24 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 forced | obj |
| 25 | away | away | ADV | _ | 23 forced | advmod |
| 26 | without | without | ADP | _ | 27 food | case |
| 27 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 forced | obl |
| 28 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 30 clothing | cc |
| 29 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 clothing | amod |
| 30 | clothing | clothing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 food | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | Hiiaka | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | prepare | to-infinitive | Hiiaka not said here | for the journey | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for journey=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Pele's impatience at every moment's delay | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | force away | past | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | without food or extra clothing; away property | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hiiaka=Recipient |
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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