Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao, sentence 13
They belong to a woman and are for a gift—a sacrifice to the sister goddess who is over us two.
Who acts: demons, sister goddess · What happens: belong, be
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 (demons, sister goddess), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 belong | nsubj |
| 2 | belong | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 woman | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 woman | det |
| 5 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 belong | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 gift | cc |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 gift | cop |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 gift | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 gift | det |
| 10 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 belong | conj |
| 11 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 sacrifice | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 sacrifice | det |
| 13 | sacrifice | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gift | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 goddess | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 goddess | det |
| 16 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 goddess | compound |
| 17 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sacrifice | nmod |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 us | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 us | cop |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 us | case |
| 21 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 goddess | nmod |
| 22 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 us | appos |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 belong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong | present | demons = demon | to a woman | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | demons = demon not said here | for a gift and a sacrifice to the sister goddess; a sacrifice to the sister goddess conj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the sister goddess | over us; two appos | 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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