Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons, sentence 85
The two little birds saw her fall and called to Pana-ewa to go and take the one he had said he would “swallow.”
Who acts: two little birds, test · What happens: see, call, go, take, say, swallow · To what, where: fall, Pana ewa, 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 (two little birds, test), 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 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 fall | nmod:poss |
| 7 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 called | cc |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 saw | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 ewa | case |
| 11 | Pana | Pana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 ewa | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Pana | punct |
| 13 | ewa | ewa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 called | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 go | mark |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 called | advcl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 take | cc |
| 17 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 go | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 one | det |
| 19 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 take | obj |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 said | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 said | aux |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 one | acl:relcl |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 swallow | nsubj |
| 24 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 swallow | aux |
| 25 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 swallow | punct |
| 26 | swallow | swallow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 said | ccomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the two little birds | Hiiaka's fall | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fall=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | the two little birds not said here | Pana ewa | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to ewa=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | the two little birds not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | take | infinitive | the two little birds not said here | the one | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past · perfect | test | the one not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | swallow in a quote | would | test | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «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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