Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka and the Seacoast Kupuas, sentence 40
Hiiaka had pity on them, so she took the ribs of a long leaf and pushed them into the soft bodies, where they became bones.
Who acts: Hiiaka, girls · What happens: have, take, push, become · To what, where: pity, ribs, girls, soft bodies, bones
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, 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 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 took | advmod |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 took | nsubj |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ribs | det |
| 11 | ribs | rib | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 took | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 leaf | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 leaf | det |
| 14 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 leaf | amod |
| 15 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ribs | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 pushed | cc |
| 17 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 took | conj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 pushed | obj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 bodies | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bodies | det |
| 21 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 bodies | amod |
| 22 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 pushed | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 became | punct |
| 24 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 became | advmod |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 became | nsubj |
| 26 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 bodies | acl:relcl |
| 27 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 became | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Hiiaka | pity | on girls = girl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient | |||
| 2 | take | past | Hiiaka | the ribs of a long leaf | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rib=Theme | ||||
| 3 | push | past | Hiiaka not said here | girls = girl | the soft bodies | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into body=Destination | |||
| 4 | become | past | girls = girl | bones | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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