Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao, sentence 90
The name is given because when looking at you her eyes are like a cord pulling you to her.”
Who acts: eyes, cord · What happens: give, look, be, pull · To what, where: name, you, omao
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 (eyes, cord), 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 name | det |
| 2 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 given | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 given | aux:pass |
| 4 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 15 cord | mark |
| 6 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 looking | mark |
| 7 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 cord | advcl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 you | case |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 looking | obl |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 cord | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 cord | cop |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 cord | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 cord | det |
| 15 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 given | xcomp |
| 16 | pulling | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 cord | acl |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 pulling | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 her | case |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 pulling | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 given | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | the name | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | look | gerund | omao's eyes not said here | at you | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at you=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | omao's eyes | like a cord | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | pull | gerund | a cord not said here | you | omao | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to she=Destination |
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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