Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao, sentence 29
Hiiaka told her to hurry on, saying: “If your purpose is strong to go with us, take your sacrifice pig to the woman of the pit.
Who acts: Hiiaka, purpose, your · What happens: tell, hurry on, say, be, go, take · To what, where: newcomer, sacrifice pig, woman · 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 (Hiiaka, purpose, your), 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 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | iobj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 hurry | mark |
| 5 | hurry | hurry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 told | xcomp |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 hurry | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 saying | punct |
| 8 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 hurry | advcl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 strong | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 strong | punct |
| 11 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 strong | mark |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 purpose | nmod:poss |
| 13 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 strong | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 strong | cop |
| 15 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 saying | ccomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 go | mark |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 strong | advcl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 us | case |
| 19 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 go | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 take | punct |
| 21 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 go | conj |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 pig | nmod:poss |
| 23 | sacrifice | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 pig | compound |
| 24 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 take | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 woman | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 woman | det |
| 27 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 take | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 pit | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 pit | det |
| 30 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 woman | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Hiiaka | newcomer | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | hurry on not said to happen | to-infinitive | Hiiaka not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | Hiiaka not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | your purpose | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | go in a quote | to-infinitive | your purpose not said here | with us | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with we=Beneficiary | ||||
| 6 | take in a quote | infinitive | your purpose not said here | your sacrifice pig | the woman of the pit | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pig=Theme to woman=Destination | |||
| 7 | purpose in a quote | your | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: poss=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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