Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao, sentence 27
The newcomer looked longingly into the eyes of the young chiefess and said: “I have a great desire for that troublesome journey, but this pig is a sacrifice for the goddess of the crater.
Who acts: newcomer, pig · What happens: look, say, have, be · To what, where: great desire, sacrifice · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (newcomer, pig), 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 | 2 newcomer | det |
| 2 | newcomer | newcomer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | longingly | longingly | ADV | _ | 3 looked | advmod |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 eyes | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 eyes | det |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 looked | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 chiefess | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 chiefess | det |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 chiefess | amod |
| 11 | chiefess | chiefess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 eyes | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 have | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 have | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 have | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 desire | det |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 desire | amod |
| 20 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 have | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 journey | case |
| 22 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 journey | det |
| 23 | troublesome | troublesome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 journey | amod |
| 24 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 desire | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 sacrifice | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 sacrifice | cc |
| 27 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 pig | det |
| 28 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sacrifice | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 sacrifice | cop |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 sacrifice | det |
| 31 | sacrifice | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 have | obl |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 goddess | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 goddess | det |
| 34 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sacrifice | nmod |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 crater | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 crater | det |
| 37 | crater | crater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 goddess | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the newcomer | into the eyes of the young chiefess; longingly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into eye=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the newcomer not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | the newcomer = newcomer | a great desire | for that troublesome journey | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Patient | |||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | this pig | a sacrifice | for the goddess of the crater | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/17/27/