Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao, sentence 36
When you arrive at the pit throw the pig down into the fire and return quickly, saying, ‘O Ku!
Who acts: you · What happens: arrive, throw down, return, say · To what, where: pit, pig, fire, Ku · 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 (you), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 arrive | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 arrive | nsubj |
| 3 | arrive | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 throw | advcl |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 pit | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pit | det |
| 6 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 arrive | obl |
| 7 | throw | throw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 pig | det |
| 9 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 throw | obj |
| 10 | down | down | ADV | _ | 7 throw | advmod |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 fire | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fire | det |
| 13 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 throw | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 return | cc |
| 15 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 throw | conj |
| 16 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 15 return | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 saying | punct |
| 18 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 return | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Ku | punct |
| 20 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 Ku | punct |
| 21 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 22 Ku | discourse |
| 22 | Ku | Ku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 saying | obj |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 throw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | present | you | the pit | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | throw down | imperative | you not said here | the pig | into the fire result; down property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer pig=Theme into fire=Result | |||
| 3 | return | infinitive | you not said here | quickly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | you not said here | Ku | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ku=Topic |
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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