Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 148
The sun waited and its light rested on the precipice and pierced the deep shadows of the cave in which the body lay while Hiiaka sought Lohiau.
Who acts: sun, body, Hiiaka · What happens: wait, rest, pierce, lie, seek, light · To what, where: light, precipice, deep shadows, cave, Lohiau
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 (sun, body, 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 sun | det |
| 2 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 waited | nsubj |
| 3 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 light | cc |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 light | nmod:poss |
| 6 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 waited | conj |
| 7 | rested | rest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 light | acl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 precipice | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 precipice | det |
| 10 | precipice | precipice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rested | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 pierced | cc |
| 12 | pierced | pierce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 waited | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 shadows | det |
| 14 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 shadows | amod |
| 15 | shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 pierced | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 cave | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 cave | det |
| 18 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shadows | nmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 which | case |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 lay | obl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 body | det |
| 22 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lay | nsubj |
| 23 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 cave | acl:relcl |
| 24 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 26 sought | mark |
| 25 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 sought | nsubj |
| 26 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 lay | advcl |
| 27 | Lohiau | Lohiau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 sought | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | the sun | sun's light conj | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | rest | participle | sun's light not said here | the precipice | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on precipice=Location | ||||
| 3 | pierce | past | the sun not said here | the deep shadows of the cave | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shadow=Patient | ||||
| 4 | lie | past | the body | the cave | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in which=Location | ||||
| 5 | seek | past | Hiiaka | Lohiau | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lohiau=Theme | ||||
| 6 | light | sun | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | shadow | the cave | nom shadow «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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