Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons, sentence 70
The two little birds flew over the battlefield and saw Hiiaka nearly dead from wounds and weariness, and their own gods of the forest lying as if asleep.
Who acts: two little birds, forest · What happens: fly, see, lie · To what, where: own gods, battlefield, Hiiaka
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 (two little birds, forest), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 birds | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 birds | nummod |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 birds | amod |
| 4 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 flew | nsubj |
| 5 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 battlefield | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 battlefield | det |
| 8 | battlefield | battlefield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flew | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 saw | cc |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 flew | conj |
| 11 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obj |
| 12 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 13 dead | advmod |
| 13 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 saw | xcomp |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 wounds | case |
| 15 | wounds | wound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 dead | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 weariness | cc |
| 17 | weariness | weariness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wounds | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 gods | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 gods | cc |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 gods | nmod:poss |
| 21 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 gods | amod |
| 22 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 flew | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 forest | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 forest | det |
| 25 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gods | nmod |
| 26 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 forest | acl |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 asleep | mark |
| 28 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 29 asleep | mark |
| 29 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 lying | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | the two little birds | birds's own gods of the forest | the battlefield | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent over battlefield=Location | |||
| 2 | see | past | the two little birds not said here | Hiiaka | dead property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hiiaka=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | lie | gerund | the forest not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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