Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 59
Hiiaka, with a heavy heart, went on her journey, fearing that this smoke might be prophetic of the wrath of the goddess of fire visited at the suggestion of some sudden jealousy or suspicion upon Hopoe and her household.
Who acts: Hiiaka, smoke, sudden jealousy · What happens: go, fear, be, visit, journey, suggest · To what, where: journey, fire, suggestion · 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 (Hiiaka, smoke, sudden jealousy), 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 | 8 went | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 heart | punct |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 heart | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 heart | det |
| 5 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 heart | amod |
| 6 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hiiaka | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hiiaka | punct |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 journey | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 journey | nmod:poss |
| 11 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fearing | punct |
| 13 | fearing | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 went | advcl |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 prophetic | mark |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 smoke | det |
| 16 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 prophetic | nsubj |
| 17 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 prophetic | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 prophetic | cop |
| 19 | prophetic | prophetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fearing | ccomp |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 wrath | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 wrath | det |
| 22 | wrath | wrath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 prophetic | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 goddess | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 goddess | det |
| 25 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wrath | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 fire | case |
| 27 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 goddess | nmod |
| 28 | visited | visit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 fire | acl |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 suggestion | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 suggestion | det |
| 31 | suggestion | suggestion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 visited | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 jealousy | case |
| 33 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 35 jealousy | det |
| 34 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 jealousy | amod |
| 35 | jealousy | jealousy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 suggestion | nmod |
| 36 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 37 suspicion | cc |
| 37 | suspicion | suspicion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 jealousy | conj |
| 38 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 39 Hopoe | case |
| 39 | Hopoe | Hopoe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 jealousy | nmod |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 household | cc |
| 41 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 household | nmod:poss |
| 42 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 jealousy | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Hiiaka | Hiiaka's journey | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on journey=Location | ||||
| 2 | fear | gerund | Hiiaka not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | might | this smoke | of the wrath of the goddess of fire; prophetic property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | visit | participle | fire not said here | the suggestion of some sudden jealousy upon Hopoe or suspicion and smoke's household | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | journey | Hiiaka | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | suggest | some sudden jealousy upon Hopoe or suspicion and smoke's household | nom suggestion «cognition intransitive»: of=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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