Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka Catching a Ghost, sentence 31
They wept and began to beseech Hiiaka to bring him back to life.
Who acts: girls · What happens: weep, begin, beseech, bring back · To what, where: Hiiaka, body, life
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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wept | nsubj |
| 2 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 began | cc |
| 4 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wept | conj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 beseech | mark |
| 6 | beseech | beseech | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 began | xcomp |
| 7 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 beseech | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 bring | mark |
| 9 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 beseech | xcomp |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 bring | obj |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 bring | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 life | case |
| 13 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bring | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | past | girls = girl | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | begin | past | girls = girl not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | beseech | to-infinitive | girls = girl not said here | Hiiaka | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | bring back | to-infinitive | girls = girl not said here | body | life | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to life=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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