Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao, sentence 95
The time came for the three women to hasten on their way.
Who acts: time · What happens: come, hasten · To what, where: way
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 (time), 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 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 women | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 women | det |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 women | nummod |
| 7 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 came | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 hasten | mark |
| 9 | hasten | hasten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 came | advcl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 way | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 way | nmod:poss |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hasten | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the time | for the three women | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hasten | to-infinitive | the time not said here | wreaths's way | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on way=Trajectory |
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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