Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao, sentence 40
Then she started to throw herself and her offerings on the ground before Hiiaka.
Who acts: woman · What happens: start, throw, offer · To what, where: woman, ground
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 (woman), 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 | 3 started | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 started | nsubj |
| 3 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 throw | mark |
| 5 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 started | xcomp |
| 6 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 throw | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 offerings | cc |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 offerings | nmod:poss |
| 9 | offerings | offering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 herself | conj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 ground | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ground | det |
| 12 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 throw | obl |
| 13 | before | before | ADP | _ | 14 Hiiaka | case |
| 14 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 throw | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | woman | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | throw | to-infinitive | woman not said here | woman | the ground | before Hiiaka | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme on ground=Destination | ||
| 3 | offer | woman | nom offering «communication transitive»: 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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