Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka and the Seacoast Kupuas, sentence 39
They stopped and found two persons without bones—the bodies were flesh, soft and yielding, yet of human form.
Who acts: girls, bodies · What happens: stop, find, be, yield · To what, where: two persons, flesh
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, bodies), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stopped | nsubj |
| 2 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 found | cc |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stopped | conj |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 persons | nummod |
| 6 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 found | obj |
| 7 | without | without | ADP | _ | 8 bones | case |
| 8 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 found | obl |
| 9 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 flesh | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bodies | det |
| 11 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 flesh | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 flesh | cop |
| 13 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stopped | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 soft | punct |
| 15 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 flesh | amod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 yielding | cc |
| 17 | yielding | yield | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 soft | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 form | punct |
| 19 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 22 form | cc |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 form | case |
| 21 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 form | amod |
| 22 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stopped | parataxis |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | girls = girl | human form parataxis | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | find | past | girls = girl not said here | two persons | without bones | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Topic | |||
| 3 | is a | past | the bodies | flesh | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | yield | gerund | the bodies not said here | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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