Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao, sentence 66
Wahine-omao became angry and cried out: “When I came here I thought you were beautiful with the glory of fire resting on you.
Who acts: Wahine omao, I, you, fire · What happens: become, cry out, come, think, be, rest · 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 (Wahine omao, I, you, fire), 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 | Wahine | Wahine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 omao | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wahine | punct |
| 3 | omao | omao | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 became | nsubj |
| 4 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 became | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 cried | cc |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 became | conj |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 cried | compound:prt |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 11 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 came | advmod |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 thought | advcl |
| 14 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 came | advmod |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 thought | nsubj |
| 16 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 became | parataxis |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 beautiful | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 beautiful | cop |
| 19 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 thought | ccomp |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 glory | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 glory | det |
| 22 | glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 beautiful | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 fire | case |
| 24 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 glory | nmod |
| 25 | resting | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 fire | acl |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 you | case |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 resting | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | Wahine omao | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry out speech: express | past | Wahine omao not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come in a quote | past | I | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other in a quote | past | I | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | past | you | with the glory of fire; beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | rest in a quote | gerund | fire not said here | on you | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on you=Location | ||||
| 7 | glory in a quote | fire | nom glory «state intransitive»: of=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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