Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka Catching a Ghost, sentence 12
She saw that the girls were kupilikia (stirred-up-with-anxiety) and asked them why they were troubled.
Who acts: omao, girls · What happens: see, be, stir, ask · To what, where: kupilikia, girls · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (omao, girls), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 kupilikia | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 girls | det |
| 5 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 kupilikia | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 kupilikia | cop |
| 7 | kupilikia | kupilikia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obl |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 up | punct |
| 9 | stirred | stir | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 up | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 up | punct |
| 11 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kupilikia | appos |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 anxiety | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 anxiety | case |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 with | punct |
| 15 | anxiety | anxiety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 up | conj |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 up | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 asked | cc |
| 18 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | conj |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 asked | obj |
| 20 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 troubled | advmod |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 troubled | nsubj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 troubled | cop |
| 23 | troubled | troubled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 asked | ccomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | omao | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | the girls | kupilikia | stirred up and anxiety appos | tree rules | |||
| 3 | stir | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | omao not said here | girls = girl | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | is | past | girls = girl | troubled property | tree rules |
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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