Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 93
Hiiaka fulfilled her mission patiently and faithfully, bringing Lohiau even from a grave in which he had been placed back to life and at last presenting him before Pele although all along the return journey she was filled with bitterness because of the injustice of Pele in dealing death to Hopoe.
Who acts: Hiiaka · What happens: fulfil, bring, place, present, fill, deal · To what, where: mission, Lohiau, grave, Hiiaka, death, Hopoe
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 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 fulfilled | nsubj |
| 2 | fulfilled | fulfil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 mission | nmod:poss |
| 4 | mission | mission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fulfilled | obj |
| 5 | patiently | patiently | ADV | _ | 2 fulfilled | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 faithfully | cc |
| 7 | faithfully | faithfully | ADV | _ | 5 patiently | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bringing | punct |
| 9 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 fulfilled | advcl |
| 10 | Lohiau | Lohiau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 bringing | obj |
| 11 | even | even | ADV | _ | 14 grave | advmod |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 grave | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 grave | det |
| 14 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bringing | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 placed | obl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 placed | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 placed | aux |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 placed | aux:pass |
| 20 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 grave | acl:relcl |
| 21 | back | back | ADV | _ | 20 placed | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 life | case |
| 23 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 back | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 presenting | cc |
| 25 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 27 presenting | mark |
| 26 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 presenting | amod |
| 27 | presenting | present | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 back | conj |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 presenting | obj |
| 29 | before | before | ADP | _ | 30 Pele | case |
| 30 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 presenting | obl |
| 31 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 36 journey | mark |
| 32 | all | all | ADV | _ | 36 journey | advmod |
| 33 | along | along | ADP | _ | 36 journey | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 journey | det |
| 35 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 journey | compound |
| 36 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 presenting | parataxis |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 filled | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 filled | aux:pass |
| 39 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 journey | acl |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 bitterness | case |
| 41 | bitterness | bitterness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 filled | obl |
| 42 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 45 injustice | case |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 because | fixed |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 injustice | det |
| 45 | injustice | injustice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 filled | obl |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 Pele | case |
| 47 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 injustice | nmod |
| 48 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 49 dealing | mark |
| 49 | dealing | deal | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 39 filled | advcl |
| 50 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 dealing | obj |
| 51 | to | to | ADP | _ | 52 Hopoe | case |
| 52 | Hopoe | Hopoe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 dealing | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fulfilled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fulfil | past | Hiiaka | Hiiaka's mission | patiently property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | bring | gerund | Hiiaka not said here | Lohiau | a grave | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent lohiau=Theme from grave=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | place | past · perfect · passive | Lohiau | a grave | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in which=Destination | ||||
| 4 | present | gerund | Lohiau | before Pele | the return journey parataxis | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 5 | fill | past · passive | Hiiaka | with bitterness; because the injustice of Pele | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with bitterness=Instrument | ||||
| 6 | deal | gerund | death | Hopoe | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent death=Theme to hopoe=Recipient |
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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