Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka Catching a Ghost, sentence 97
Thus the watching anxious girls and the friends of Hiiaka knew that the ghost had gone back into the body and the fisherman had been brought back to life.
Who acts: watching anxious girls, ghost · What happens: watch, know, go back, bring back · To what, where: body, fisherman, life · 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 (watching anxious girls, ghost), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 11 knew | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 girls | det |
| 3 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 girls | amod |
| 4 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 girls | amod |
| 5 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 knew | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 friends | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 friends | det |
| 8 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 girls | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Hiiaka | case |
| 10 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 friends | nmod |
| 11 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 gone | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ghost | det |
| 14 | ghost | ghost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gone | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 gone | aux |
| 16 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 knew | ccomp |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 16 gone | advmod |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 body | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 body | det |
| 20 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gone | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 brought | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 fisherman | det |
| 23 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 brought | aux |
| 25 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 brought | aux:pass |
| 26 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 gone | conj |
| 27 | back | back | ADV | _ | 26 brought | advmod |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 life | case |
| 29 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 brought | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | gerund | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | know | past | the watching anxious girls and the friends of Hiiaka | thus property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | go back | past · perfect | the ghost | the body | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | bring back | past · perfect · passive | the fisherman | life | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to life=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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