Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao, sentence 62
Then she saw one of the women of the pit slowly changing into an old woman lying on a mat of fire apart from the others.
Who acts: woman, one · What happens: see, change, lie · To what, where: one, mat
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, one), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 saw | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 women | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 women | det |
| 7 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 one | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 pit | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pit | det |
| 10 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 women | nmod |
| 11 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 12 changing | advmod |
| 12 | changing | change | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 saw | xcomp |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 woman | case |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 woman | det |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 woman | amod |
| 16 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 changing | obl |
| 17 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 changing | advcl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 mat | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 mat | det |
| 20 | mat | mat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lying | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 fire | case |
| 22 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 mat | nmod |
| 23 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 17 lying | advmod |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 others | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 others | det |
| 26 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 lying | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | woman | one of the women of the pit | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | change | gerund | one of the women of the pit not said here | into a old woman result; slowly property | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into woman=Result | ||||
| 3 | lie | gerund | one of the women of the pit not said here | a mat of fire | from the others; apart property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on mat=Location |
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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