Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka Catching a Ghost, sentence 38
She leaped after it and followed it to a great stone lying at the foot of a steep precipice.
Who acts: Hiiaka, great stone · What happens: leap, follow, lie · To what, where: ghost, great stone, foot
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, great stone), 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 leaped | nsubj |
| 2 | leaped | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 it | case |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 leaped | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 followed | cc |
| 6 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 leaped | conj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 followed | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 stone | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 stone | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 stone | amod |
| 11 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 followed | obl |
| 12 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 stone | acl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 foot | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 foot | det |
| 15 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lying | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 precipice | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 precipice | det |
| 18 | steep | steep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 precipice | amod |
| 19 | precipice | precipice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 foot | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 leaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leap | past | Hiiaka | after ghost | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | follow | past | Hiiaka not said here | ghost | a great stone | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme to stone=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | lie | gerund | a great stone not said here | the foot of a steep precipice | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at foot=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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