Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka Catching a Ghost, sentence 92
Hiiaka told him to stand up, and putting out her strong hand lifted him to his feet.
Who acts: Hiiaka, putting · What happens: tell, stand up, put out, lift · To what, where: water, strong hand, feet · 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, putting), 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 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | iobj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 stand | mark |
| 5 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 told | xcomp |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 stand | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lifted | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 lifted | cc |
| 9 | putting | put | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 lifted | csubj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 putting | compound:prt |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hand | nmod:poss |
| 12 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hand | amod |
| 13 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 putting | obj |
| 14 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 told | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 lifted | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 feet | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 feet | nmod:poss |
| 18 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 lifted | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Hiiaka | water | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | stand up not said to happen | to-infinitive | Hiiaka not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | put out | gerund | Hiiaka's strong hand | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal | |||||
| 4 | lift | past | putting | water | water's feet | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to foot=Destination |
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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