Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 60
What the Hawaiians call mana, or supernatural power able to manifest itself in many ways, had come upon Hiiaka.
Who acts: Hawaiians · What happens: call, manifest, come · To what, where: mana, many ways, Hiiaka · 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 (Hawaiians), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 Hawaiians | obj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Hawaiians | det |
| 3 | Hawaiians | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 call | nsubj |
| 4 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | mana | mana | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 call | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 able | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 able | cc |
| 8 | supernatural | supernatural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 power | amod |
| 9 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 able | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 call | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 manifest | mark |
| 12 | manifest | manifest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 able | xcomp |
| 13 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 manifest | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 ways | case |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 ways | amod |
| 16 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 manifest | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 come | punct |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 come | aux |
| 19 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 ways | acl |
| 20 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 21 Hiiaka | case |
| 21 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 come | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present | the Hawaiians | mana | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mana=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | manifest | to-infinitive | the Hawaiians not said here | mana | many ways | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Theme | |||
| 3 | come | past · perfect | many ways not said here | Hiiaka | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon hiiaka=Location |
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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