Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka Catching a Ghost, sentence 68
Then Hiiaka put forth her hand and took fresh water, pouring it over the body, chanting again:
Who acts: Hiiaka · What happens: put, take, pour, chant · To what, where: hand, fresh water, struggle, 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 (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 put | advmod |
| 2 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 3 put | advmod |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hand | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 took | cc |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 9 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 water | amod |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pouring | punct |
| 12 | pouring | pour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 took | advcl |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 pouring | obj |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 body | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 body | det |
| 16 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pouring | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 chanting | punct |
| 18 | chanting | chant | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 pouring | conj |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 chanting | advmod |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | Hiiaka | Hiiaka's hand | then | forth property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal | ||
| 2 | take | past | Hiiaka not said here | fresh water | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pour | gerund | Hiiaka not said here | struggle | the body | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 4 | chant | gerund | Hiiaka not said here | again | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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