Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka Catching a Ghost, sentence 50
Then Hiiaka uttered an incantation, while she struck the feet and limbs.
Who acts: Hiiaka · What happens: utter, strike · To what, where: incantation, feet
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 uttered | advmod |
| 2 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 uttered | nsubj |
| 3 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 incantation | det |
| 5 | incantation | incantation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 uttered | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 struck | punct |
| 7 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 9 struck | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 struck | nsubj |
| 9 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 uttered | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 feet | det |
| 11 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 struck | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 limbs | cc |
| 13 | limbs | limb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 feet | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 uttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | utter speech: other | past | Hiiaka | a incantation | then | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent incantation=Topic | |||
| 2 | strike | past | Hiiaka | the feet and limbs | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient |
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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