Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao, sentence 102
Thus Hiiaka sent her loving thoughts over forest and rugged lava plains to her dearest friend even while she opened her heart to another friend who served her with the utmost faithfulness and love all the rest of her eventful journey.
Who acts: Hiiaka, friend · What happens: send, rug, open, serve, love, think · To what, where: loving thoughts, forest, lava plains, heart, friend, thought
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hiiaka, friend), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 sent | advmod |
| 2 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 5 | loving | loving | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 thoughts | amod |
| 6 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sent | obj |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 forest | case |
| 8 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 rugged | cc |
| 10 | rugged | rug | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | conj |
| 11 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 plains | compound |
| 12 | plains | plain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 rugged | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 friend | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 friend | nmod:poss |
| 15 | dearest | dear | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 friend | amod |
| 16 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rugged | obl |
| 17 | even | even | ADV | _ | 20 opened | advmod |
| 18 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 20 opened | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 opened | nsubj |
| 20 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | advcl |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 heart | nmod:poss |
| 22 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 opened | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 friend | case |
| 24 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 friend | det |
| 25 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 opened | obl |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 served | nsubj |
| 27 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 friend | acl:relcl |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 served | obj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 faithfulness | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 faithfulness | det |
| 31 | utmost | utmost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 faithfulness | amod |
| 32 | faithfulness | faithfulness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 served | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 love | cc |
| 34 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 served | conj |
| 35 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 37 rest | det:predet |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 rest | det |
| 37 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 love | obj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 journey | case |
| 39 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 journey | nmod:poss |
| 40 | eventful | eventful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 journey | amod |
| 41 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 rest | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | Hiiaka | Hiiaka's loving thoughts | forest | thus property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Theme | ||
| 2 | rug | past | Hiiaka not said here | lava plains | to Hiiaka's dearest friend | tree rules | |||
| 3 | open | past | Hiiaka | Hiiaka's heart | another friend | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent heart=Patient to friend=Recipient | |||
| 4 | serve | past | another friend | thought | with the utmost faithfulness | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Recipient with faithfulness=Theme | |||
| 5 | love | present | another friend not said here | all rest of Hiiaka's eventful journey | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rest=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | think | Hiiaka | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | 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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