Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka Catching a Ghost, sentence 7
Hiiaka said: “One of us will stop and eat.
Who acts: Hiiaka, One · What happens: say, stop, eat · 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: who acts (Hiiaka, One), 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 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 stop | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 stop | punct |
| 5 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 stop | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 us | case |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 One | nmod |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 stop | aux |
| 9 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 eat | cc |
| 11 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 stop | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Hiiaka | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | stop in a quote | future | One of us | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | eat in a quote | infinitive | One of us not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «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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