Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka Catching a Ghost, sentence 84
Then she took more fresh water and poured it over the eyes, dashing it into the face.
Who acts: Hiiaka · What happens: take, pour, dash · To what, where: fresh water, taboo, eyes, face
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 took | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 fresh | advmod |
| 5 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 water | amod |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 poured | cc |
| 8 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 poured | obj |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 eyes | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 eyes | det |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 poured | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 dashing | punct |
| 14 | dashing | dash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 poured | advcl |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 dashing | obj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 face | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 face | det |
| 18 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dashing | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Hiiaka | fresh water | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | |||
| 2 | pour | past | Hiiaka not said here | taboo | the eyes | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 3 | dash | gerund | Hiiaka not said here | taboo | into the face result | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Patient into face=Result |
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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