Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao, sentence 15
They walked on through the restful shadows of the forest and soon met a beautiful woman carrying a little black pig and a striped, angular fish.
Who acts: demons, beautiful woman · What happens: walk on, meet, carry, shadow · To what, where: restful shadows, beautiful woman, little black pig, forest
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, beautiful woman), 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 walked | nsubj |
| 2 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADV | _ | 2 walked | advmod |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 shadows | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 shadows | det |
| 6 | restful | restful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 shadows | amod |
| 7 | shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 walked | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 forest | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 forest | det |
| 10 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shadows | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 met | cc |
| 12 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 met | advmod |
| 13 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 walked | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 woman | det |
| 15 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 woman | amod |
| 16 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 met | obj |
| 17 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 woman | acl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 pig | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 pig | amod |
| 20 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 pig | amod |
| 21 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 carrying | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 fish | cc |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 fish | det |
| 24 | striped | striped | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 fish | amod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 striped | punct |
| 26 | angular | angular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 fish | amod |
| 27 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pig | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk on | past | demons = demon | the restful shadows of the forest | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through shadow=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | meet | past | demons = demon not said here | a beautiful woman | soon property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | carry | gerund | a beautiful woman not said here | a little black pig and a striped angular fish | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pig=Theme | ||||
| 4 | shadow | the forest | nom shadow «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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