Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka Catching a Ghost, sentence 67
There was a hard struggle—the ghost trying to go back and yet yielding to the slapping and going further and further into the body.
Who acts: hard struggle, ghost · What happens: be, try, go back, yield, go · To what, where: body
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 (hard struggle, ghost), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 struggle | det |
| 4 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 struggle | amod |
| 5 | struggle | struggle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 6 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 ghost | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ghost | det |
| 8 | ghost | ghost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 struggle | appos |
| 9 | trying | try | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 ghost | acl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 go | mark |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 trying | xcomp |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 go | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 yielding | cc |
| 14 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 15 yielding | advmod |
| 15 | yielding | yield | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 trying | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 slapping | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 slapping | det |
| 18 | slapping | slapping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 yielding | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 going | cc |
| 20 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 trying | conj |
| 21 | further | further | ADV | _ | 20 going | advmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 further | cc |
| 23 | further | further | ADV | _ | 21 further | conj |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 body | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 body | det |
| 26 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 going | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a hard struggle | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | try | gerund | the ghost not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | go back not said to happen | to-infinitive | the ghost not said here | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | yield | gerund | the ghost not said here | yet | to the slapping | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to slapping=Theme | |||
| 5 | go | gerund | the ghost not said here | the body | further property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into body=Initial_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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