Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons, sentence 17

They were the deceitful, treacherous fairies, living in the most beautiful places of the forest or glen, often appearing as human beings but always having some defect in some part of the body.

Who acts: eepas, some · What happens: live, appear, have, defect · To what, where: beautiful places, part

This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eepas, some), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 living	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 living	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fairies	det
4	deceitful	deceitful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fairies	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 deceitful	punct
6	treacherous	treacherous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fairies	amod
7	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 living	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 living	punct
9	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	in	in	ADP	_	14 places	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 places	det
12	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	13 beautiful	advmod
13	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 places	amod
14	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 living	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 forest	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 forest	det
17	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 places	nmod
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 glen	cc
19	glen	glen	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 forest	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 appearing	punct
21	often	often	ADV	_	22 appearing	advmod
22	appearing	appear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 living	parataxis
23	as	as	ADP	_	25 beings	case
24	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 beings	amod
25	beings	being	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 appearing	obl
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 having	cc
27	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	28 having	advmod
28	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 living	conj
29	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	30 defect	nsubj
30	defect	defect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 having	xcomp
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 part	case
32	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	33 part	det
33	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 defect	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 body	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 body	det
36	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 part	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 living	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	live	past · progressive	eepas = eepa	the beautiful places of the forest or glen	the deceitful treacherous fairies nsubj	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location
2	appear	gerund			as human beings; often property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	gerund	eepas = eepa not said here		always property	tree rules
4	defect	present	some	some part of the body		tree rules

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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🌲 Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons, sentence 17

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons, sentence 17