Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons, sentence 35
Hiiaka, entering the forest, threw aside her fern robes, revealing her beautiful form.
Who acts: Hiiaka · What happens: enter, throw, reveal, form · To what, where: forest, beautiful form
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 (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 | 7 threw | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 entering | punct |
| 3 | entering | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Hiiaka | acl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 forest | det |
| 5 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entering | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hiiaka | punct |
| 7 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | aside | aside | ADP | _ | 11 robes | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 robes | nmod:poss |
| 10 | fern | fern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 robes | compound |
| 11 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 threw | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 revealing | punct |
| 13 | revealing | reveal | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 threw | advcl |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 form | nmod:poss |
| 15 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 form | amod |
| 16 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 revealing | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | gerund | Hiiaka not said here | the forest | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme forest=Destination | ||||
| 2 | throw | past | Hiiaka | aside Hiiaka's fern robes | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | reveal | gerund | Hiiaka not said here | Hiiaka's beautiful form | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Topic | ||||
| 4 | form | Hiiaka | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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