Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons, sentence 37
One called to the other, “This is one of the women of ka lua (the pit).”
Who acts: This · What happens: call, be · To what, where: other, one · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (This), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 One | acl |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 other | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 other | det |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 called | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 one | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 one | punct |
| 8 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 one | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 one | cop |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 One | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 women | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 women | det |
| 13 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 one | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 lua | case |
| 15 | ka | ka | X | Foreign=Yes | 16 lua | compound |
| 16 | lua | lua | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 women | nmod |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 19 pit | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 pit | det |
| 19 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lua | appos |
| 20 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 19 pit | punct |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 pit | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 pit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | participle | the other | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to other=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | This | one | of the women of ka lua | 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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