Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka and the Seacoast Kupuas, sentence 7
As human beings they would mingle with their fellows and go out in the sea, bathing and surf-riding, but when they went into the water they would dive under, assume their shark form, and catch some one of the bathers.
Who acts: beings · What happens: mingle, go out, go, dive under, assume, catch · To what, where: sea, water, shark form, one
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 (beings), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 beings | case |
| 2 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 beings | amod |
| 3 | beings | being | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 mingle | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 mingle | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 mingle | aux |
| 6 | mingle | mingle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 fellows | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 fellows | nmod:poss |
| 9 | fellows | fellow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 mingle | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 go | cc |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 mingle | conj |
| 12 | out | out | ADV | _ | 11 go | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 sea | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sea | det |
| 15 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 go | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bathing | punct |
| 17 | bathing | bathing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sea | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 riding | cc |
| 19 | surf | surf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 riding | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 surf | punct |
| 21 | riding | riding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sea | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 went | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 went | cc |
| 24 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 went | advmod |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 went | nsubj |
| 26 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 mingle | parataxis |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 water | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 water | det |
| 29 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 went | obl |
| 30 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 dive | nsubj |
| 31 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 dive | aux |
| 32 | dive | dive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 went | parataxis |
| 33 | under | under | ADP | _ | 32 dive | compound:prt |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 assume | punct |
| 35 | assume | assume | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 dive | conj |
| 36 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 form | nmod:poss |
| 37 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 form | compound |
| 38 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 assume | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 catch | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 catch | cc |
| 41 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 mingle | conj |
| 42 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 43 one | det |
| 43 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 41 catch | obj |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 bathers | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 bathers | det |
| 46 | bathers | bather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 one | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 mingle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mingle | would | beings = being | as human beings; with beings's fellows | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with fellow=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | go out | infinitive | beings = being not said here | the sea and bathing and surf riding | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | go | past | beings = being | the water | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into water=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | dive under | would | beings = being | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | assume | infinitive | beings = being not said here | beings's shark form | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme | ||||
| 6 | catch | infinitive | beings = being not said here | some one of the bathers | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 7 | form | beings = being | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=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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