Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao, sentence 2
It is a story of two girls attracted to each other by lovable qualities.
Who acts: element · What happens: be, attract · To what, where: story, two girls
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 (element), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 story | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 story | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 story | det |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 girls | case |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 girls | nummod |
| 7 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 story | nmod |
| 8 | attracted | attract | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 girls | acl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 each | case |
| 10 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 8 attracted | obl |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 each | fixed |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 qualities | case |
| 13 | lovable | lovable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 qualities | amod |
| 14 | qualities | quality | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 attracted | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 story | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | element | a story | of two girls | tree rules | |||
| 2 | attract | participle | two girls not said here | to each result; by lovable qualities | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to each=Result |
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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