Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka Catching a Ghost, sentence 42
Hiiaka washed the body in the sea and then turned to look for the ghost, but it was running away as if carried by a whirlwind.
Who acts: Hiiaka, face · What happens: wash, turn, look, run away, carry · To what, where: body, sea
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, face), 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 washed | nsubj |
| 2 | washed | wash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 body | det |
| 4 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 washed | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 sea | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sea | det |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 washed | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 turned | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 turned | advmod |
| 10 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 washed | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 look | mark |
| 12 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 turned | xcomp |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 ghost | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ghost | det |
| 15 | ghost | ghost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 look | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 running | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 running | cc |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 running | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 running | aux |
| 20 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 washed | advcl |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 running | advmod |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 carried | mark |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 carried | mark |
| 24 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 running | advcl |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 whirlwind | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 whirlwind | det |
| 27 | whirlwind | whirlwind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 carried | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 washed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wash | past | Hiiaka | the body | the sea | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient | |||
| 2 | turn | past | Hiiaka not said here | then | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | look | to-infinitive | Hiiaka not said here | for the ghost | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for ghost=Theme | ||||
| 4 | run away | past · progressive | face | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | carry | participle | face not said here | by a whirlwind | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: 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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