Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka Catching a Ghost, sentence 4
The girls saw the strangers and with hearts full of hospitality cried: “O women strangers, stop at our house and eat.
Who acts: girls, hearts · What happens: see, cry, stop, eat · To what, where: strangers, 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 (girls, hearts), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 girls | det |
| 2 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 strangers | det |
| 5 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 saw | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 cried | cc |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 hearts | case |
| 8 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 cried | nsubj |
| 9 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hearts | amod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 hospitality | case |
| 11 | hospitality | hospitality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 full | obl |
| 12 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 stop | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 stop | punct |
| 15 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 17 strangers | case |
| 16 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 strangers | compound |
| 17 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 stop | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 strangers | punct |
| 19 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 cried | ccomp |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 house | case |
| 21 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 house | nmod:poss |
| 22 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stop | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 eat | cc |
| 24 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 stop | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the girls | the strangers | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stranger=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | hearts | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | stop in a quote | infinitive | our house | of women strangers | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at house=Location | ||||
| 4 | eat in a quote | infinitive | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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