Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao, sentence 56

The woman threw the pig and the fish over the edge into the mystic fires beneath and leaned over, looking down into the deadliness of the fire and smoke which received the sacrifice.

Who acts: woman, fire · What happens: throw, learn over, look down, receive · To what, where: pig, edge, sacrifice

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, fire), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 woman	det
2	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 threw	nsubj
3	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pig	det
5	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 threw	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fish	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fish	det
8	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pig	conj
9	over	over	ADP	_	11 edge	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 edge	det
11	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 threw	obl
12	into	into	ADP	_	15 fires	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fires	det
14	mystic	mystic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 fires	amod
15	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 threw	obl
16	beneath	beneath	ADV	_	3 threw	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 leaned	cc
18	leaned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 threw	conj
19	over	over	ADV	_	18 leaned	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 looking	punct
21	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 leaned	advcl
22	down	down	ADV	_	21 looking	advmod
23	into	into	ADP	_	25 deadliness	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 deadliness	det
25	deadliness	deadliness	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 looking	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 fire	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 fire	det
28	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 deadliness	nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 smoke	cc
30	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fire	conj
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 received	nsubj
32	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 fire	acl:relcl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 sacrifice	det
34	sacrifice	sacrifice	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 received	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	throw	past	the woman	the pig and the fish	the edge	into the mystic fires result; beneath property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer pig=Theme into fire=Result
2	learn over	past	the woman not said here			over property	vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	look down	gerund	the woman not said here			into the deadliness of the fire and smoke; down property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into deadliness=Theme
4	receive	past	the fire and smoke	the sacrifice			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sacrifice=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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🌲 Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao, sentence 56

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao, sentence 56