Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka Catching a Ghost, sentence 22
I will go and chase that spirit from place to place until it goes back to the place where it left its house—the body supposed to be dead.
Who acts: I, spirit · What happens: go, chase, go back, leave, suppose, be · To what, where: body, spirit, place, house
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 (I, spirit), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 go | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | aux |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 chase | cc |
| 5 | chase | chase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 go | conj |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 spirit | det |
| 7 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chase | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 place | case |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chase | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 place | case |
| 11 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 place | nmod |
| 12 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 14 goes | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 goes | nsubj |
| 14 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 chase | advcl |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 goes | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 place | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 place | det |
| 18 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 goes | obl |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 left | advmod |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 left | nsubj |
| 21 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 place | acl:relcl |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 house | nmod:poss |
| 23 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 left | obj |
| 24 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 body | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 body | det |
| 26 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | obl |
| 27 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 body | acl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 dead | mark |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 dead | cop |
| 30 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 supposed | xcomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | future | I | the body | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | chase | infinitive | I not said here | that spirit | place to place | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent spirit=Theme from place=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | go back | present | spirit | to the place result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to place=Result | ||||
| 4 | leave | past | spirit | spirit's house | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | ||||
| 5 | suppose | participle | the body not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is | to-infinitive | dead 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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