Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao, sentence 86
The reply came: “Because of my friend who lives over by that sea far below us.
Who acts: reply, friend · What happens: come, live over
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 (reply, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 reply | det |
| 2 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 friend | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 friend | punct |
| 6 | Because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 9 friend | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Because | fixed |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 friend | nmod:poss |
| 9 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 lives | nsubj |
| 11 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 friend | acl:relcl |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 lives | compound:prt |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 sea | case |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 sea | det |
| 15 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lives | obl |
| 16 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 us | advmod |
| 17 | below | below | ADP | _ | 18 us | case |
| 18 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 lives | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the reply | because my friend | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | live over in a quote | present | my friend | by that sea; below us | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by sea=Location |
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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