Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao, sentence 87
The smoke of the fire-anger of our sister-lord is falling over toward my friend Hopoe.”
Who acts: smoke, fire anger, sister lord · What happens: fall over, smoke, anger
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 (smoke, fire anger, sister lord), 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 smoke | det |
| 2 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 falling | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 anger | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 anger | det |
| 5 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 anger | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 fire | punct |
| 7 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 smoke | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 lord | case |
| 9 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 lord | nmod:poss |
| 10 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lord | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 sister | punct |
| 12 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 anger | nmod |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 falling | aux |
| 14 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 15 | over | over | ADV | _ | 14 falling | advmod |
| 16 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 18 friend | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 friend | nmod:poss |
| 18 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 falling | obl |
| 19 | Hopoe | Hopoe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 friend | appos |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 falling | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 falling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall over | present · progressive | the smoke of the fire anger of our sister lord | toward my friend; over property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme toward friend=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | smoke | the fire anger of our sister lord | nom smoke «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 3 | anger | our sister lord | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: of=agent |
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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