Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka Catching a Ghost, sentence 19
The canoe filled with water.
What happens: fill · To what, where: canoe
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: 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 canoe | det |
| 2 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 canoe | acl |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 water | case |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 filled | obl |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 canoe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | participle | the canoe not said here | with water | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with water=Instrument |
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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