Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka Catching a Ghost, sentence 27
Hiiaka hastened after the ghost and drove it toward the house where the girls were living.
Who acts: girls · What happens: hasten, drive, live · To what, where: ghost, 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 (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 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 hastened | compound |
| 2 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 ghost | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ghost | det |
| 5 | ghost | ghost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hastened | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 drove | cc |
| 7 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hastened | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 drove | obj |
| 9 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 11 house | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 house | det |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drove | obl |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 living | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 girls | det |
| 14 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 living | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 living | aux |
| 16 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 house | acl:relcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten | participle | after the ghost | Hiiaka compound | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | drive | past | ghost | the house | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme toward house=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | live | past · progressive | the girls | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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