Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka Catching a Ghost, sentence 82
All this time she was slapping and pounding the spirit into the body.
Who acts: Hiiaka · What happens: slap, pound · To what, where: spirit, 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 time | det:predet |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 slapping | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 slapping | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 slapping | aux |
| 6 | slapping | slap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 pounding | cc |
| 8 | pounding | pound | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 slapping | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 spirit | det |
| 10 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pounding | obj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 body | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 body | det |
| 13 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pounding | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 slapping | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slap | past · progressive | Hiiaka | time | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pound | gerund | Hiiaka not said here | the spirit | the body | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent spirit=Material into body=Product |
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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