Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 55
Oh my lehua forest—inland at Kaliu, The longing traveller journeys many days For the lover of the sweet dreams, For Lohiau ipo.” —Ancient Hiiaka Chant.
Who acts: longing traveller · What happens: journey · To what, where: lehua forest
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 (longing traveller), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 forest | discourse |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 forest | nmod:poss |
| 3 | lehua | lehua | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 forest | compound |
| 4 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Kaliu | punct |
| 6 | inland | inland | ADV | _ | 8 Kaliu | advmod |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 Kaliu | case |
| 8 | Kaliu | Kaliu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 forest | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 journeys | punct |
| 10 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 traveller | det |
| 11 | longing | longing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 traveller | compound |
| 12 | traveller | traveller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 journeys | nsubj |
| 13 | journeys | journey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 Kaliu | parataxis |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 days | amod |
| 15 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 journeys | obj |
| 16 | For | for | ADP | _ | 18 lover | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 lover | det |
| 18 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 journeys | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 dreams | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 dreams | det |
| 21 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 dreams | amod |
| 22 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 lover | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 ipo | punct |
| 24 | For | for | ADP | _ | 26 ipo | case |
| 25 | Lohiau | Lohiau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 ipo | compound |
| 26 | ipo | ipo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Kaliu | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 Kaliu | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Kaliu | punct |
| 29 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 Chant | punct |
| 30 | Ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 Chant | amod |
| 31 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Chant | compound |
| 32 | Chant | chant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 forest | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 forest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | journey | present | the longing traveller | day | for the lover of the sweet dreams | vn run-51.3.2-1 «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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