Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 180
The coconut shell in which the spirit had been kept was held against the body, the feet and limbs were slapped, and the body rubbed by Wahine-omao while Hiiaka continued her necessary incantations until the restoration to life was complete.
Who acts: Hiiaka, restoration · What happens: keep, hold, slap, rub, continue, be · To what, where: spirit, coconut shell, body, feet, necessary incantations
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, restoration), 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 shell | det |
| 2 | coconut | coconut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shell | compound |
| 3 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 held | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 which | case |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 kept | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 spirit | det |
| 7 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 kept | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 kept | aux:pass |
| 10 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 shell | acl:relcl |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 held | aux:pass |
| 12 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | against | against | ADP | _ | 15 body | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 body | det |
| 15 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 held | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 feet | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 feet | det |
| 18 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 slapped | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 limbs | cc |
| 20 | limbs | limb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 feet | conj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 slapped | aux:pass |
| 22 | slapped | slap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 held | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 body | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 body | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 body | det |
| 26 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 held | obl |
| 27 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 body | acl |
| 28 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 omao | case |
| 29 | Wahine | Wahine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 omao | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 Wahine | punct |
| 31 | omao | omao | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 rubbed | obl |
| 32 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 34 continued | mark |
| 33 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 continued | nsubj |
| 34 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 held | advcl |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 incantations | nmod:poss |
| 36 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 incantations | amod |
| 37 | incantations | incantation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 continued | obj |
| 38 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 44 complete | mark |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 restoration | det |
| 40 | restoration | restoration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 complete | nsubj |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 life | case |
| 42 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 restoration | nmod |
| 43 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 complete | cop |
| 44 | complete | complete | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 continued | advcl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past · perfect · passive | the spirit | the coconut shell | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in which=Location | ||||
| 2 | hold | past · passive | the coconut shell | the body | the body obl | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme against body=Location | |||
| 3 | slap | past · passive | the feet and limbs | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | rub | participle | the body not said here | by Wahine omao | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme by omao=Destination | ||||
| 5 | continue | past | Hiiaka | Hiiaka's necessary incantations | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent incantation=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is | past | the restoration to life | complete property | tree rules |
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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