Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka Catching a Ghost, sentence 65
Here am I.”—Amama (The prayer is done).
What happens: be, do · To what, where: prayer · 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: 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 2 | am | am | X | _ | 1 Here | cop |
| 3 | I. | I. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 am | goeswith |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
| 5 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Amama | punct |
| 6 | Amama | Amama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | conj |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 done | punct |
| 8 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 prayer | det |
| 9 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 done | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 done | aux:pass |
| 11 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 Amama | parataxis |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 done | punct |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | Amama conj; here property | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | do in a quote | present · passive | the prayer | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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