Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka Catching a Ghost, sentence 33
She told them that the spirit must take her to the body and they must wait until the rainbow colors of a divine chief came over their house.
Who acts: Hiiaka, spirit, girls, rainbow colors · What happens: tell, take, wait, come · To what, where: girls, Hiiaka, body, house · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Hiiaka, spirit, girls, rainbow colors), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | iobj |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 take | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 spirit | det |
| 6 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | nsubj |
| 7 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 take | aux |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 told | ccomp |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 take | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 body | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 body | det |
| 12 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 wait | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 wait | nsubj |
| 15 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 wait | aux |
| 16 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 take | conj |
| 17 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 25 came | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 colors | det |
| 19 | rainbow | rainbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 colors | compound |
| 20 | colors | color | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 came | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 chief | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 chief | det |
| 23 | divine | divine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 chief | amod |
| 24 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 colors | nmod |
| 25 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 wait | advcl |
| 26 | over | over | ADP | _ | 28 house | case |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 house | nmod:poss |
| 28 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 came | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Hiiaka | girls = girl | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | take | must | the spirit | Hiiaka | the body | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to body=Destination | |||
| 3 | wait | must | girls = girl | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | come | past | the rainbow colors of a divine chief | girls's house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over house=Initial_Location |
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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