Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka Catching a Ghost, sentence 45
She thrust forth this power and turned the spirit back to the place where the body was lying.
Who acts: Hiiaka, body · What happens: thrust, turn back, lie · To what, where: power, spirit, place
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, body), 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 thrust | nsubj |
| 2 | thrust | thrust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 2 thrust | advmod |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 power | det |
| 5 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thrust | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 turned | cc |
| 7 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thrust | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 spirit | det |
| 9 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 turned | obj |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 turned | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 place | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 place | det |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 turned | obl |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 lying | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 body | det |
| 16 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lying | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 lying | aux |
| 18 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 place | acl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thrust | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thrust | past | Hiiaka | this power | forth property | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Theme | |||
| 2 | turn back | past | Hiiaka not said here | the spirit | the place | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent spirit=Theme to place=Destination | |||
| 3 | lie | past · progressive | the body | vn assuming_position-50 «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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