Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka and the Seacoast Kupuas, sentence 22
Hiiaka bade them wait, telling them this was the home of Makaukiu, a very ferocious monster.
Who acts: Hiiaka, this · What happens: bade, wait, tell, be · To what, where: clothes, home · Speech: someone speaks here
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, this), 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 bade | nsubj |
| 2 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bade | obj |
| 4 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 bade | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 telling | punct |
| 6 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 wait | advcl |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 telling | iobj |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 home | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 home | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 home | det |
| 11 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 telling | xcomp |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Makaukiu | case |
| 13 | Makaukiu | Makaukiu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 home | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 monster | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 monster | det |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 ferocious | advmod |
| 17 | ferocious | ferocious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 monster | amod |
| 18 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Makaukiu | appos |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bade | past | Hiiaka | clothes | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wait | infinitive | Hiiaka not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | gerund | Hiiaka not said here | clothes | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is a not said to happen | past | this | the home | of Makaukiu | tree rules |
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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