Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka Catching a Ghost, sentence 94
Little by little the power of life came back and he walked slowly to his house.
Who acts: Little little power, water · What happens: come back, walk
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 (Little little power, water), 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 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 power | amod |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 little | case |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 power | amod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 power | det |
| 5 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 life | case |
| 7 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 power | nmod |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 came | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 walked | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 walked | nsubj |
| 12 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | conj |
| 13 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 12 walked | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 house | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 house | nmod:poss |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 walked | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | past | the Little little power of life | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | walk | past | water | to water's house result; slowly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to house=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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