Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 111
But the small spirit voice of Lohiau called for Hiiaka to come and get him.
What happens: call, come, get · To what, where: small spirit voice, door · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pili and Noho. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 called | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 voice | det |
| 3 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 voice | amod |
| 4 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 voice | compound |
| 5 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 called | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Lohiau | case |
| 7 | Lohiau | Lohiau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 voice | nmod |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 Hiiaka | case |
| 10 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 called | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 come | mark |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 called | advcl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 get | cc |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 come | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 get | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle · passive | the small spirit voice of Lohiau | for Hiiaka | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for hiiaka=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | come | to-infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | get | infinitive | door | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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