Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka Catching a Ghost, sentence 47
Hiiaka slapped the ghost back against the body and told it to go in at the bottom of a foot.
Who acts: Hiiaka · What happens: slap back, tell, go in · To what, where: ghost, house, bottom · 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), 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 slapped | nsubj |
| 2 | slapped | slap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ghost | det |
| 4 | ghost | ghost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 slapped | obj |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 slapped | advmod |
| 6 | against | against | ADP | _ | 8 body | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 body | det |
| 8 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 slapped | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 told | cc |
| 10 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 slapped | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 told | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 go | mark |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 told | xcomp |
| 14 | in | in | ADV | _ | 13 go | advmod |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 bottom | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bottom | det |
| 17 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 go | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 foot | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 foot | det |
| 20 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bottom | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 slapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slap back | past | Hiiaka | the ghost | against the body | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent ghost=Instrument against body=Patient | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | Hiiaka not said here | house | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent it=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go in not said to happen | to-infinitive | Hiiaka not said here | the bottom of a foot | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at bottom=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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