Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 62
Thus Hiiaka from time to time as she passed over the mountains of the different islands was able to look back over the dearly loved land of Puna.
Who acts: Hiiaka · What happens: pass, be, look back, love · To what, where: time, mountains
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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 2 Hiiaka | advmod |
| 2 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 able | nsubj |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Hiiaka | nmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 time | nmod |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 passed | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 passed | nsubj |
| 9 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 time | acl |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 mountains | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mountains | det |
| 12 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 passed | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 islands | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 islands | det |
| 15 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 islands | amod |
| 16 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 mountains | nmod |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 able | cop |
| 18 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 look | mark |
| 20 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 able | xcomp |
| 21 | back | back | ADV | _ | 20 look | advmod |
| 22 | over | over | ADP | _ | 26 land | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 land | det |
| 24 | dearly | dearly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 land | amod |
| 25 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 land | amod |
| 26 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 look | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Puna | case |
| 28 | Puna | Puna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 land | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | Hiiaka | time not said here | the mountains of the different islands | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent time=Theme over mountain=Destination | |||
| 2 | is | past | Hiiaka from time to time | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | look back | to-infinitive | Hiiaka from time to time not said here | over the dearly loved land of Puna | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over land=Theme | ||||
| 4 | love | participle | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
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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