Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao, sentence 71
Then she ran from the crater, saying, “O Ku!
Who acts: woman · What happens: run, say · To what, where: crater, Ku · 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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 ran | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 crater | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 crater | det |
| 6 | crater | crater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 saying | punct |
| 8 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 ran | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Ku | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Ku | punct |
| 11 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 12 Ku | case |
| 12 | Ku | Ku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 saying | obj |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | woman | the crater | then | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from crater=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | woman not said here | Ku | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ku=Topic |
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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