Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka and the Seacoast Kupuas, sentence 6
This mouth was between the shoulders and was concealed by a cape thrown carefully over the back.
Who acts: mouth, cape · What happens: be, conceal, throw · To what, where: cape, back
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 (mouth, cape), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 mouth | det |
| 2 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shoulders | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 shoulders | cop |
| 4 | between | between | ADP | _ | 6 shoulders | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 shoulders | det |
| 6 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 concealed | cc |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 concealed | aux:pass |
| 9 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 shoulders | conj |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 cape | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 cape | det |
| 12 | cape | cape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 concealed | obl |
| 13 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 cape | acl |
| 14 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 13 thrown | advmod |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 back | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 back | det |
| 17 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 thrown | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 shoulders | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this mouth | between the shoulders | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | conceal | past · passive | a cape | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | throw | participle | a cape not said here | the back | carefully property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent over back=Destination |
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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