Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 131
At last Hiiaka turned to say farewell to Wahine-omao because the next fight with the dragons in their new bodies might prove fatal.
Who acts: last Hiiaka, next fight · What happens: turn, say, prove · To what, where: farewell, Wahine omao · 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 (last Hiiaka, next fight), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 Hiiaka | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Hiiaka | amod |
| 3 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | nsubj |
| 4 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 say | mark |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 turned | xcomp |
| 7 | farewell | farewell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 say | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 omao | case |
| 9 | Wahine | Wahine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 omao | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Wahine | punct |
| 11 | omao | omao | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 farewell | nmod |
| 12 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 24 prove | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fight | det |
| 14 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fight | amod |
| 15 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 prove | nsubj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 dragons | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 dragons | det |
| 18 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 fight | nmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 bodies | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 bodies | nmod:poss |
| 21 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 bodies | amod |
| 22 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 fight | nmod |
| 23 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 prove | aux |
| 24 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 say | advcl |
| 25 | fatal | fatal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 prove | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | last Hiiaka | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | last Hiiaka not said here | farewell | Wahine omao | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent farewell=Topic to omao=Recipient | |||
| 3 | prove | might | the next fight with the dragons in dragons's new bodies | fatal property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=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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