Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka Catching a Ghost, sentence 1
Hiiaka, the sister of Pele, and the goddess of ferns, and their new friend Wahine-omao, were hastening through the forests above the bay of Hilo.
Who acts: new friend · What happens: hasten · To what, where: forests, sister
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hiiaka Catching a Ghost. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (new 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 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sister | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sister | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sister | det |
| 4 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Pele | case |
| 6 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sister | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 goddess | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 goddess | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 goddess | det |
| 10 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sister | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 ferns | case |
| 12 | ferns | fern | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 goddess | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 hastening | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 hastening | cc |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 friend | nmod:poss |
| 16 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 friend | amod |
| 17 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hastening | nsubj |
| 18 | Wahine | Wahine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 friend | appos |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 omao | punct |
| 20 | omao | omao | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Wahine | appos |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 friend | punct |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 hastening | aux |
| 23 | hastening | hasten | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 sister | conj |
| 24 | through | through | ADP | _ | 26 forests | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 forests | det |
| 26 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 hastening | obl |
| 27 | above | above | ADP | _ | 29 bay | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 bay | det |
| 29 | bay | bay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 forests | nmod |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Hilo | case |
| 31 | Hilo | Hilo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 bay | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sister | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten | past · progressive | ferns's new friend | the forests above the bay of Hilo | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through forest=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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