Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka Catching a Ghost, sentence 10
The truth was that Wahine-omao of the light skin needed food like any one not possessing semi-divine powers.
Who acts: truth, one · What happens: be, not possess · To what, where: semi-divine powers
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 (truth, one), 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 truth | det |
| 2 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 needed | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 needed | cop |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 needed | mark |
| 5 | Wahine | Wahine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 omao | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Wahine | punct |
| 7 | omao | omao | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 needed | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 skin | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 skin | det |
| 10 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 skin | compound |
| 11 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 omao | nmod |
| 12 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 needed | obj |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 one | case |
| 15 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 one | det |
| 16 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 needed | obl |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 possessing | advmod |
| 18 | possessing | possess | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 one | acl:relcl |
| 19 | semi-divine | semi-divine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 powers | amod |
| 20 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 possessing | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 needed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the truth | like any one; Wahine omao of the light skin nsubj; food obj; need property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not possess | gerund | any one not said here | semi-divine powers | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot power=Theme |
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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