Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka and the Seacoast Kupuas, sentence 23

But the girls thought they could see any evil one, if living in that pure, clear water, so they laughed at their friend and went to the edge of the water.

Who acts: girls · What happens: think, see, live, laugh, go · To what, where: evil one, pure clear water, edge · 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 (girls), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 thought	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girls	det
3	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 see	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 see	aux
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 thought	ccomp
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 one	det
9	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 one	amod
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 see	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 living	punct
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 living	mark
13	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 see	advcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	19 water	case
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 water	nsubj
16	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 water	amod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 pure	punct
18	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 water	amod
19	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 living	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 laughed	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	23 laughed	advmod
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 laughed	nsubj
23	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	parataxis
24	at	at	ADP	_	26 friend	case
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 friend	nmod:poss
26	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 laughed	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 went	cc
28	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 laughed	conj
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 edge	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 edge	det
31	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 went	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 water	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 water	det
34	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 edge	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the girls				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	see	could	girls = girl	any evil one			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
3	live a condition, not said to happen	gerund	girls = girl not said here		pure clear water that		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Location
4	laugh	past	girls = girl			at girls's friend	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	go	past	girls = girl not said here		the edge of the water		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to edge=Initial_Location

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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🌲 Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka and the Seacoast Kupuas, sentence 23

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka and the Seacoast Kupuas, sentence 23