Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao, sentence 73
Her feet seemed to be placed on a swift-moving cloud and in a few moments she was dropped by the side of Hiiaka.
Who acts: feet, side · What happens: seem, place, move, drop · To what, where: moving cloud, Ka
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 (feet, side), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 feet | nmod:poss |
| 2 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 seemed | nsubj |
| 3 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 placed | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 placed | aux:pass |
| 6 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 seemed | xcomp |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 cloud | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 cloud | det |
| 9 | swift | swift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 moving | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 swift | punct |
| 11 | moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 cloud | amod |
| 12 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 placed | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 moments | cc |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 moments | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 moments | det |
| 16 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 moments | amod |
| 17 | moments | moment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 cloud | conj |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 dropped | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 dropped | aux:pass |
| 20 | dropped | drop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 cloud | acl:relcl |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 side | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 side | det |
| 23 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dropped | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Hiiaka | case |
| 25 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 side | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | Ka's feet | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | place | to-infinitive · passive | Ka's feet not said here | a moving cloud and a few moments | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: on cloud=Destination | ||||
| 3 | move | gerund | swift compound | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | drop | past · passive | the side of Hiiaka | Ka | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
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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