Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 51
Hiiaka slowly went forth catching only a magic pa-u, or skirt, which had the death-dealing power of flashing lightning.
Who acts: Hiiaka, skirt, dealing power · What happens: go, catch, have, deal, flash · To what, where: magic pa u, dealing power, lightning
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, skirt, dealing power), 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 | 3 went | nsubj |
| 2 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | catching | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 went | xcomp |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 u | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 u | det |
| 8 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 u | amod |
| 9 | pa | pa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 u | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 pa | punct |
| 11 | u | u | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 catching | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 skirt | punct |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 skirt | cc |
| 14 | skirt | skirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 catching | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 had | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 had | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 skirt | acl:relcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 power | det |
| 19 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dealing | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 death | punct |
| 21 | dealing | deal | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 power | amod |
| 22 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 had | obj |
| 23 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 24 flashing | mark |
| 24 | flashing | flash | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 power | acl |
| 25 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 flashing | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Hiiaka | forth, slowly property | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | catch | gerund | Hiiaka not said here | a magic pa u | skirt obl | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | have | past | skirt | the dealing power | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient | ||||
| 4 | deal | gerund | death compound | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | flash | gerund | the dealing power not said here | lightning | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent lightning=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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