Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao, sentence 44
In a little while she stood on the high point above the crater called Kolea—the place where birds rested.
Who acts: Ka, birds · What happens: stand, call, rest · To what, where: place, little, crater · 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 (Ka, birds), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 little | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 little | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stood | obl |
| 4 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 6 stood | mark |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 stood | nsubj |
| 6 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 point | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 point | det |
| 9 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 point | amod |
| 10 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | obl |
| 11 | above | above | ADP | _ | 13 crater | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 crater | det |
| 13 | crater | crater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 point | nmod |
| 14 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 crater | acl |
| 15 | Kolea | Kolea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 called | xcomp |
| 16 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 place | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 place | det |
| 18 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | obl |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 rested | advmod |
| 20 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 rested | nsubj |
| 21 | rested | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 place | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Ka | the place | a little | on the high point above the crater | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in little=Location | ||
| 2 | call | participle | the crater not said here | Kolea xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | rest | past | birds | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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