Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 149
Hiiaka heard the spirit voice saying, “Moving, moving, you will find me in a small coconut calabash fastened in tight.”
Who acts: Hiiaka, spirit voice, you · What happens: hear, say, move, find, fasten · To what, where: spirit voice, small coconut calabash, tight · 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, spirit voice, you), 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 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 voice | det |
| 4 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 voice | compound |
| 5 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heard | obj |
| 6 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 voice | acl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Moving | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Moving | punct |
| 9 | Moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 saying | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 moving | punct |
| 11 | moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 Moving | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 find | punct |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 find | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 find | aux |
| 15 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 heard | conj |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 find | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 calabash | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 calabash | det |
| 19 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 calabash | amod |
| 20 | coconut | coconut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 calabash | compound |
| 21 | calabash | calabash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 find | obl |
| 22 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 calabash | acl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 tight | case |
| 24 | tight | tight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 fastened | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 heard | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Hiiaka | the spirit voice | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | the spirit voice not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | move in a quote | gerund | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | move in a quote | gerund | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | find in a quote | future | you | the spirit voice = voice | a small coconut calabash | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Topic | |||
| 6 | fasten in a quote | participle | a small coconut calabash not said here | tight | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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