Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka Catching a Ghost, sentence 26
It was afraid to come near the strangers and yet did not want to go back to the body.
Who acts: It · What happens: be, come, not want, go back · To what, where: strangers
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 (It), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 afraid | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 afraid | cop |
| 3 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 come | mark |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 afraid | xcomp |
| 6 | near | near | ADP | _ | 8 strangers | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 strangers | det |
| 8 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 come | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 want | cc |
| 10 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 13 want | advmod |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 want | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 want | advmod |
| 13 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 afraid | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 go | mark |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 want | xcomp |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 go | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 body | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 body | det |
| 19 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 go | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | It | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | to-infinitive | the strangers | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near stranger=Location | |||||
| 3 | not want | past · do-support | yet | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go back not said to happen | to-infinitive | to the body result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to body=Result |
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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