Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka Catching a Ghost, sentence 51
The incantation was a call for the gift of life from her friends of the volcano.
Who acts: incantation · What happens: be, gift · To what, where: call, life
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 (incantation), 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 incantation | det |
| 2 | incantation | incantation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 call | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 call | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 call | det |
| 5 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 gift | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gift | det |
| 8 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 call | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 life | case |
| 10 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gift | nmod |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 friends | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 friends | nmod:poss |
| 13 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 call | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 volcano | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 volcano | det |
| 16 | volcano | volcano | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 friends | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the incantation | a call | for the gift of life; from Hiiaka's friends of the volcano | tree rules | |||
| 2 | gift | life | nom gift «possession transitive»: of=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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