Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao, sentence 42
Then the woman took her sacred gifts and went up through the woods to the crater, saying over and over, “O Ku!
Who acts: woman · What happens: take, go up, say, gift · To what, where: sacred gifts, woods · 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 (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 | 4 took | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 woman | det |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 gifts | nmod:poss |
| 6 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 gifts | amod |
| 7 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 took | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 went | compound:prt |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 woods | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 woods | det |
| 13 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 went | obl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 crater | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 crater | det |
| 16 | crater | crater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 saying | punct |
| 18 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 took | advcl |
| 19 | over | over | ADV | _ | 18 saying | advmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 over | cc |
| 21 | over | over | ADV | _ | 19 over | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Ku | punct |
| 23 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 Ku | punct |
| 24 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 25 Ku | case |
| 25 | Ku | Ku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 saying | obl |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the woman | woman's sacred gifts | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme | |||
| 2 | go up | past | the woman not said here | the woods | to the crater | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | the woman not said here | of Ku; over property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | gift | woman | nom gift «possession 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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