Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka Catching a Ghost, sentence 54
The taboo fire of the woman.
What happens: fire · To what, where: taboo fire, woman
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: 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 | 3 fire | det |
| 2 | taboo | taboo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fire | compound |
| 3 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 woman | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 woman | det |
| 6 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fire | nmod |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fire | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | fire | the woman | nom fire «event 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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