Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao, sentence 59
Down it went again into the whirling, groaning fires of the underworld.
Who acts: upward · What happens: go, groan, fire · To what, where: whirling, fires, underworld
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 (upward), 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 | Down | down | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 whirling | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 whirling | det |
| 7 | whirling | whirling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 groaning | punct |
| 9 | groaning | groan | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 went | advcl |
| 10 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 groaning | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 underworld | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 underworld | det |
| 13 | underworld | underworld | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fires | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | upward | the whirling | again | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into whirling=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | groan | gerund | upward not said here | fires of the underworld | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fire=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fire | the underworld | nom fire «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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