Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao, sentence 19
The Humuhumu-nukunuku-a-puaa was a fish with a sharp-pointed back, grunting like a pig.
Who acts: Humuhumu, puaa · What happens: puaa, be, point back, grunt · To what, where: fish
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 (Humuhumu, puaa), 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 | 8 puaa | det |
| 2 | Humuhumu | Humuhumu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 puaa | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Humuhumu | punct |
| 4 | nukunuku | nukunuku | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 Humuhumu | dep |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 puaa | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 puaa | det |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 a | punct |
| 8 | puaa | puaa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fish | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 fish | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 fish | det |
| 11 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 16 pointed | mark |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 pointed | det |
| 14 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 pointed | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 sharp | punct |
| 16 | pointed | point | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 fish | acl:relcl |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 16 pointed | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 grunting | punct |
| 19 | grunting | grunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 pointed | advcl |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 pig | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 pig | det |
| 22 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 grunting | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 fish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | puaa | Humuhumu | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | the puaa | a fish | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | point back | participle | a fish not said here | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | grunt | gerund | like a pig | vn animal_sounds-38 «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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