Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka and the Seacoast Kupuas, sentence 8
They would carry the body to some under-water cave, where it could be devoured.
Who acts: beings · What happens: carry, devour · To what, where: body, water cave
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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 carry | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 carry | aux |
| 3 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 body | det |
| 5 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carry | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 cave | case |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 cave | det |
| 8 | under | under | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 under | punct |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cave | compound |
| 11 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carry | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 devoured | punct |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 devoured | advmod |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 devoured | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 devoured | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 devoured | aux:pass |
| 17 | devoured | devour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 cave | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | would | beings = being | the body | some water cave | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent body=Theme to cave=Destination | |||
| 2 | devour | could · passive | body | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: subject=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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