Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 66
Turning against my aikane (bosom friend), Coming near to my loved one.
What happens: turn, come · To what, where: aikane, loved one
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: 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 | Turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | against | against | ADP | _ | 4 aikane | case |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 aikane | nmod:poss |
| 4 | aikane | aikane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Turning | obl |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 7 friend | punct |
| 6 | bosom | bosom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 friend | compound |
| 7 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 aikane | appos |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 7 friend | punct |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Coming | punct |
| 10 | Coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Turning | conj |
| 11 | near | near | ADV | _ | 10 Coming | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 one | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 one | nmod:poss |
| 14 | loved | loved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 one | amod |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Coming | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Turning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | gerund | my aikane | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme against aikane=Trajectory | |||||
| 2 | come | gerund | my loved one | near property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to one=Initial_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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