Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao, sentence 57
Flaming hands leaped up, caught the gifts and drew them down under the red surface.
Who acts: Flaming hands · What happens: flame, leap up, catch, draw down · To what, where: Flaming hands, gifts, gift, red surface
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 (Flaming hands), 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 | Flaming | flame | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 hands | amod |
| 2 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 caught | nsubj |
| 3 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 hands | acl |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 leaped | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 hands | punct |
| 6 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gifts | det |
| 8 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 caught | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 drew | cc |
| 10 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 caught | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 drew | obj |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 drew | compound:prt |
| 13 | under | under | ADP | _ | 16 surface | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 surface | det |
| 15 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 surface | amod |
| 16 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drew | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flame | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | leap up | participle | Flaming hands not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | catch | past | Flaming hands | the gifts | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme | ||||
| 4 | draw down | past | Flaming hands not said here | gift | the red surface | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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