Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao, sentence 75
They came to a grove of ohia, or native apple, trees, and the new friend begged them to rest for a little while in this place, for it was her father’s home.
Who acts: feet, new friend, friend · What happens: come, beg, rest, be · To what, where: native apple, grove, feet, place
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, new friend, friend), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 grove | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 grove | det |
| 5 | grove | grove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 ohia | case |
| 7 | ohia | ohia | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grove | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 apple | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 apple | cc |
| 10 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 apple | amod |
| 11 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 trees | punct |
| 13 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 apple | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 begged | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 begged | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 friend | det |
| 17 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 friend | amod |
| 18 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 begged | nsubj |
| 19 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 begged | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 rest | mark |
| 22 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 begged | xcomp |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 while | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 while | det |
| 25 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 while | amod |
| 26 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rest | obl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 place | case |
| 28 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 place | det |
| 29 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rest | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 home | punct |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 home | case |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 home | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 home | cop |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 father | nmod:poss |
| 35 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 home | nmod:poss |
| 36 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 35 father | case |
| 37 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rest | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | feet = foot | native apple and trees | a grove of ohia | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to grove=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | the new friend | feet = foot | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | rest not said to happen | to-infinitive | the new friend not said here | this place | while | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location | |||
| 4 | is | past | friend | for Hiiaka's father's home; Hiiaka's father nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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