Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka and the Seacoast Kupuas, sentence 24
Hiiaka took some fragrant ti-leaves, made a little bundle and threw it into the sea.
Who acts: Hiiaka · What happens: take, make, throw · To what, where: fragrant ti leaves, little bundle, bundle, sea
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 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 leaves | det |
| 4 | fragrant | fragrant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 leaves | amod |
| 5 | ti | ti | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leaves | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 ti | punct |
| 7 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 took | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | parataxis |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bundle | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bundle | amod |
| 12 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 threw | cc |
| 14 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 made | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 threw | obj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 sea | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sea | det |
| 18 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 threw | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Hiiaka | some fragrant ti leaves | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | past | a little bundle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bundle=Product | |||||
| 3 | throw | past | bundle | into the sea result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer it=Theme into sea=Result |
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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