Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 150
Hiiaka followed the spirit voice and soon saw a coconut closed up with feathers.
Who acts: Hiiaka · What happens: follow, see, close up · To what, where: spirit voice, coconut
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 followed | nsubj |
| 2 | followed | follow | 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 followed | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 saw | cc |
| 7 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 saw | advmod |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 followed | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 coconut | det |
| 10 | coconut | coconut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obj |
| 11 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 coconut | acl |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 closed | compound:prt |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 feathers | case |
| 14 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 closed | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | Hiiaka | the spirit voice | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Hiiaka not said here | a coconut | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer coconut=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | close up | participle | a coconut not said here | with feathers | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with feather=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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