Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao, sentence 76
Hiiaka hesitated, saying: “I am afraid that you would entangle me, O friend!
Who acts: Hiiaka, you · What happens: hesitate, say, be, entangle · To what, where: Hiiaka · 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 (Hiiaka, you), 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 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 hesitated | nsubj |
| 2 | hesitated | hesitate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 saying | punct |
| 4 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 hesitated | advcl |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 afraid | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 afraid | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 afraid | nsubj |
| 8 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 afraid | cop |
| 9 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 saying | ccomp |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 entangle | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 entangle | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 entangle | aux |
| 13 | entangle | entangle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 afraid | ccomp |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 entangle | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 friend | punct |
| 16 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 17 friend | discourse |
| 17 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 afraid | conj |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 hesitated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hesitate | past | Hiiaka | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: express | gerund | Hiiaka not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | Hiiaka | friend conj; afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | entangle in a quote | would | you | Hiiaka | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
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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