Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao, sentence 65
When she learned that they had been seen going on their journey she charged her new worshipper to go with Hiiaka and always spy upon her movements.
Who acts: Pele, travellers · What happens: learn, see, go, charge, spy, journey · To what, where: travellers, journey, new worshipper · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Pele, travellers), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 learned | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 learned | nsubj |
| 3 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 seen | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 seen | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 seen | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 seen | aux:pass |
| 8 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 learned | ccomp |
| 9 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 seen | xcomp |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 journey | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 journey | nmod:poss |
| 12 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 going | obl |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 charged | nsubj |
| 14 | charged | charge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 journey | acl:relcl |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 worshipper | nmod:poss |
| 16 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 worshipper | amod |
| 17 | worshipper | worshipper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 charged | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 go | mark |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 charged | advcl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 Hiiaka | case |
| 21 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 go | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 spy | cc |
| 23 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 24 spy | advmod |
| 24 | spy | spy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 go | conj |
| 25 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 27 movements | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 movements | nmod:poss |
| 27 | movements | movement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 spy | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 learned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | past | Pele | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | see | past · perfect · passive | travellers = traveller | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go | gerund | travellers = traveller not said here | travellers's journey | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on journey=Location | ||||
| 4 | charge | past | Pele | Pele's new worshipper | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location worshipper=Theme | ||||
| 5 | go | to-infinitive | Pele not said here | with Hiiaka | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with hiiaka=Beneficiary | ||||
| 6 | spy | present | Pele not said here | upon Pele's movements; always property | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | journey | travellers = traveller | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | move | Pele | nom movement «act transitive»: 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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