Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka Catching a Ghost, sentence 11
So Wahine-omao stopped and ate.
Who acts: Wahine omao · What happens: stop, eat
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 (Wahine omao), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 stopped | advmod |
| 2 | Wahine | Wahine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 omao | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wahine | punct |
| 4 | omao | omao | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stopped | nsubj |
| 5 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 ate | cc |
| 7 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stopped | conj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | Wahine omao | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | eat | past | Wahine omao not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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