Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao, sentence 4
Then there was added the human helper, Wahine-omao, or “the light-colored woman.”
What happens: add, color · To what, where: human helper · 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: 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 added | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 added | expl |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 added | aux:pass |
| 4 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 helper | det |
| 6 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 helper | amod |
| 7 | helper | helper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 added | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 omao | punct |
| 9 | Wahine | Wahine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 omao | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Wahine | punct |
| 11 | omao | omao | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 helper | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 woman | punct |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 woman | cc |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 woman | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 woman | det |
| 16 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 colored | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 light | punct |
| 18 | colored | color | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 woman | amod |
| 19 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 helper | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 added | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 added | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | past · passive | the human helper and Wahine omao or the colored woman | there | then | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: helper=Patient | |||
| 2 | color in a quote | participle | light compound | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: 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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