Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka Catching a Ghost, sentence 95
Hiiaka called for the glory of a divine chief to shine around them.
Who acts: divine chief · What happens: call, shine, glory · To what, where: Hiiaka · 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 (divine chief), 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 called | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 glory | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 glory | det |
| 5 | glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 called | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 chief | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 chief | det |
| 8 | divine | divine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 chief | amod |
| 9 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 glory | nmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 shine | mark |
| 11 | shine | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 chief | acl |
| 12 | around | around | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 shine | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle · passive | Hiiaka | for the glory of a divine chief | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for glory=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | shine | to-infinitive | around powers = power | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around they=Location | |||||
| 3 | glory | a divine chief | nom glory «state intransitive»: of=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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