Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 52
As she climbed the walls of the crater she looked down on her sisters and chanted:
Who acts: Hiiaka · What happens: climb, look down, chant · To what, where: walls
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), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 3 climbed | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 climbed | nsubj |
| 3 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 looked | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 walls | det |
| 5 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 climbed | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 crater | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 crater | det |
| 8 | crater | crater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 walls | nmod |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 looked | nsubj |
| 10 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 looked | compound:prt |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 sisters | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 14 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 looked | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 chanted | cc |
| 16 | chanted | chant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 sisters | conj |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb | past | Hiiaka | the walls of the crater | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location wall=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look down | past | Hiiaka | on Hiiaka's sisters | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on sister=Theme | ||||
| 3 | chant | participle | Hiiaka not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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