Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons, sentence 2
She was sent on a wearisome journey over all the islands to find Lohiau, the lover of Pele.
What happens: send, find · To what, where: Hiiaka, wearisome journey, Lohiau
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: 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | aux:pass |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 journey | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 journey | det |
| 6 | wearisome | wearisome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 journey | amod |
| 7 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obl |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 islands | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 islands | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 islands | det |
| 11 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sent | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 find | mark |
| 13 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sent | advcl |
| 14 | Lohiau | Lohiau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 find | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lover | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 lover | det |
| 17 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Lohiau | appos |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Pele | case |
| 19 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 lover | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past · passive | Hiiaka | a wearisome journey | over all islands | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | Lohiau | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lohiau=Topic |
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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