Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 118
The spirits of the dragons went into other bodies and leaped upon Hiiaka roaring, and biting and tearing her body.
Who acts: spirits, Hiiaka · What happens: go, leap, roar, bite, tear · To what, where: other bodies, body
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: who acts (spirits, Hiiaka), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 spirits | det |
| 2 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 went | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 dragons | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dragons | det |
| 5 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 spirits | nmod |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 bodies | case |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bodies | amod |
| 9 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 went | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 leaped | cc |
| 11 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 went | conj |
| 12 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 14 roaring | mark |
| 13 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 roaring | nsubj |
| 14 | roaring | roar | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 leaped | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 tearing | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 tearing | cc |
| 17 | biting | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 tearing | nsubj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 tearing | cc |
| 19 | tearing | tear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 went | advcl |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 body | nmod:poss |
| 21 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tearing | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the spirits of the dragons | other bodies | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into body=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | leap | participle | the spirits of the dragons not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | roar | gerund | Hiiaka | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||||
| 4 | bite | gerund | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | tear | gerund | Hiiaka's body | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location body=Theme |
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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