Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao, sentence 91
“Yes,” said Hiiaka, “that is her name, but for me she had the sweet-scented hala wreaths and the beautiful wreaths of the red blossoms of the lehua and baskets of the most delicious treasures of the sea.
Who acts: Hiiaka, that · What happens: say, be, have, scent, treasure · To what, where: name, scented hala wreaths, sea · 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, that), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 name | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 name | punct |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 name | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 name | cop |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 name | nmod:poss |
| 12 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Hiiaka | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 had | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 had | cc |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 me | case |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 had | nsubj |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 had | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 wreaths | det |
| 20 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 scented | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 sweet | punct |
| 22 | scented | scent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 wreaths | amod |
| 23 | hala | hala | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 wreaths | compound |
| 24 | wreaths | wreath | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 had | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 wreaths | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 wreaths | det |
| 27 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 wreaths | amod |
| 28 | wreaths | wreath | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 wreaths | conj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 blossoms | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 blossoms | det |
| 31 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 blossoms | amod |
| 32 | blossoms | blossom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 wreaths | nmod |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 lehua | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 lehua | det |
| 35 | lehua | lehua | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 blossoms | nmod |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 baskets | cc |
| 37 | baskets | basket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 lehua | conj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 treasures | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 treasures | det |
| 40 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 41 delicious | advmod |
| 41 | delicious | delicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 treasures | amod |
| 42 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 baskets | nmod |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 sea | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 sea | det |
| 45 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 treasures | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Hiiaka | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | that | Hiiaka's name | Hiiaka nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 3 | have in a quote | past | Hiiaka | the scented hala wreaths and the beautiful wreaths of the red blossoms of the lehua and baskets of the delicious treasures of the sea | name nsubj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wreath=Patient | |||
| 4 | scent in a quote | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | treasure in a quote | the sea | nom treasure «possession transitive»: of=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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