Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka Catching a Ghost, sentence 25
The spirit was wandering aimlessly from place to place with its calabash thrown over its shoulder.
Who acts: spirit · What happens: wonder, throw · To what, where: place, calabash, shoulder
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 spirit | det |
| 2 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wandering | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wandering | aux |
| 4 | wandering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | aimlessly | aimlessly | ADV | _ | 4 wandering | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 place | case |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wandering | obl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 place | case |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 place | nmod |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 calabash | case |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 calabash | nmod:poss |
| 12 | calabash | calabash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 place | nmod |
| 13 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 calabash | acl |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 shoulder | case |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 16 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 thrown | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wandering | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | past · progressive | the spirit | place to place with spirit's calabash | aimlessly property | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | throw | participle | spirit's calabash not said here | spirit's shoulder | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent over shoulder=Destination |
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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