Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao, sentence 81
They turned aside through the red-fruited tall ohia trees to a resting-place called Papa-lau-ahi, or the fireleaf of lava spread out flat like a board.
Who acts: sideways, resting place · What happens: turn, fruit, call, spread out · To what, where: fruited tall ohia trees, Papa lau ahi, fireleaf · 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 (sideways, resting place), 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 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 2 turned | advmod |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 trees | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 trees | det |
| 6 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fruited | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 red | punct |
| 8 | fruited | fruit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 trees | amod |
| 9 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 trees | amod |
| 10 | ohia | ohia | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 trees | compound |
| 11 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 turned | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 place | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 place | det |
| 14 | resting | resting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 place | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 resting | punct |
| 16 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turned | obl |
| 17 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 place | acl |
| 18 | Papa | Papa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 ahi | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Papa | punct |
| 20 | lau | lau | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ahi | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 lau | punct |
| 22 | ahi | ahi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 called | xcomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 fireleaf | punct |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 fireleaf | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 fireleaf | det |
| 26 | fireleaf | fireleaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turned | parataxis |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 lava | case |
| 28 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 fireleaf | nmod |
| 29 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 fireleaf | acl |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 spread | compound:prt |
| 31 | flat | flat | ADV | _ | 29 spread | advmod |
| 32 | like | like | ADP | _ | 34 board | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 board | det |
| 34 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 spread | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | sideways = sideway | the fruited tall ohia trees | to a resting place; the fireleaf of lava parataxis; aside property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme through tree=Source to place=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | fruit | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | call | participle | a resting place not said here | Papa lau ahi | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | spread out | participle | the fireleaf of lava not said here | like a board; flat property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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