Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 121
Hiiaka told Wahine-omao to cover her body with leaves and sticks near the pali and in event of her death to return with the tidings to Hawaii.
Who acts: Hiiaka · What happens: tell, cover, return, die · To what, where: Wahine omao, body, pali · 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: who acts (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 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Wahine | Wahine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 omao | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Wahine | punct |
| 5 | omao | omao | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 told | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 cover | mark |
| 7 | cover | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 told | advcl |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 body | nmod:poss |
| 9 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cover | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 leaves | case |
| 11 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cover | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sticks | cc |
| 13 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 leaves | conj |
| 14 | near | near | ADP | _ | 16 pali | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 pali | det |
| 16 | pali | pali | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cover | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 event | cc |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 event | case |
| 19 | event | event | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pali | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 death | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 death | nmod:poss |
| 22 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 event | nmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 return | mark |
| 24 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 cover | advcl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 tidings | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 tidings | det |
| 27 | tidings | tiding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 return | obl |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 Hawaii | case |
| 29 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 tidings | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Hiiaka | Wahine omao | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent omao=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | cover | to-infinitive | Hiiaka not said here | Hiiaka's body | the pali and event of Hiiaka's death | with leaves and sticks | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent body=Destination with leaf=Theme | ||
| 3 | return | to-infinitive | Hiiaka not said here | with the tidings to Hawaii | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | die | Hiiaka | nom death «event intransitive»: 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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