Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 123
The other leaped upon Hiiaka, catching her around the neck and arm.
What happens: leap, catch · To what, where: Hiiaka, neck
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 leaped | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 leaped | amod |
| 3 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 Hiiaka | case |
| 5 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 leaped | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 catching | punct |
| 7 | catching | catch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 leaped | advcl |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 catching | obj |
| 9 | around | around | ADP | _ | 11 neck | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 neck | det |
| 11 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 catching | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 arm | cc |
| 13 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 neck | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 leaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leap | participle | Hiiaka | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon hiiaka=Trajectory | |||||
| 2 | catch | gerund | Hiiaka | the neck and arm | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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