Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka and the Seacoast Kupuas, sentence 18
She had two companions as she journeyed along the eastern coast of the island Hawaii.
Who acts: Hiiaka · What happens: have, journey · To what, where: two companions, eastern coast
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hiiaka and the Seacoast Kupuas. 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 companions | nummod |
| 4 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 journeyed | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 journeyed | nsubj |
| 7 | journeyed | journey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | advcl |
| 8 | along | along | ADP | _ | 11 coast | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 coast | det |
| 10 | eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 coast | amod |
| 11 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 journeyed | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 island | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 island | det |
| 14 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 coast | nmod |
| 15 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 island | appos |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Hiiaka | two companions | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent companion=Patient | ||||
| 2 | journey | past | Hiiaka | the eastern coast of the island | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along coast=Trajectory |
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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