Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao, sentence 61
Every tabu upon her free action had been removed and she was free—free to do according to her own wish.
Who acts: woman · What happens: remove, be, do, accord, act, wish · To what, where: tabu
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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 tabu | det |
| 2 | tabu | tabu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 removed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 action | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 action | nmod:poss |
| 5 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 action | amod |
| 6 | action | action | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tabu | nmod |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 removed | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 removed | aux:pass |
| 9 | removed | remove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 free | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 free | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 free | cop |
| 13 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 removed | conj |
| 14 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 free | punct |
| 15 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 removed | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 do | mark |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 free | xcomp |
| 18 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 wish | case |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 according | fixed |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 wish | nmod:poss |
| 21 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 wish | amod |
| 22 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 do | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 removed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remove | past · perfect · passive | every tabu upon woman's free action | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | woman | free property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | accord woman's own wish | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | act | woman | nom action «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | wish | woman | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: 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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