Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons, sentence 6
But she saw that this was not enough, so she called on the divine guardians of plants to come with garments and bear a burden of skirts with which to drape Hiiaka on her journey.
Who acts: Hiiaka, this, skirts · What happens: see, not be, call, come, bear, drape · To what, where: divine guardians, burden, Hiiaka, journey, skirts · 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 (Hiiaka, this, skirts), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 saw | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 enough | mark |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 enough | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 enough | cop |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 enough | advmod |
| 8 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 saw | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 called | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 called | advmod |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 called | nsubj |
| 12 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 guardians | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 guardians | det |
| 15 | divine | divine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 guardians | amod |
| 16 | guardians | guardian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 called | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 plants | case |
| 18 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 guardians | nmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 come | mark |
| 20 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 called | advcl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 garments | case |
| 22 | garments | garment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 come | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 bear | cc |
| 24 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 come | conj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 burden | det |
| 26 | burden | burden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bear | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 skirts | case |
| 28 | skirts | skirt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 burden | nmod |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 which | case |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 drape | nsubj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 drape | mark |
| 32 | drape | drape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 skirts | acl:relcl |
| 33 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 drape | obj |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 journey | case |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 journey | nmod:poss |
| 36 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 drape | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Hiiaka | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | not is | past | this | enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | call | past | Hiiaka | the divine guardians of plants | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | come | to-infinitive | Hiiaka not said here | with garments | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | bear | infinitive | Hiiaka not said here | a burden of skirts | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burden=Patient | ||||
| 6 | drape | to-infinitive | skirts | Hiiaka | Hiiaka's journey | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hiiaka=Theme on journey=Destination | |||
| 7 | burden | skirts | nom burden «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 8 | journey | Hiiaka | nom journey «act 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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