Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 188
Hiiaka had seen Pele’s action as she had looked back from time to time on her journey to Kauai.
Who acts: Hiiaka, Pele · What happens: see, look back, act, journey · To what, where: action
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, Pele), 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 | 3 seen | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seen | aux |
| 3 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 action | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Pele | case |
| 6 | action | action | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seen | obj |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 looked | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 looked | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 looked | aux |
| 10 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 seen | advcl |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 looked | advmod |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 time | case |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looked | obl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 time | case |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 time | nmod |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 journey | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 journey | nmod:poss |
| 18 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 time | nmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 Kauai | case |
| 20 | Kauai | Kauai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 journey | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · perfect | Hiiaka | Pele's action | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer action=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | look back | past · perfect | Hiiaka | time | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | act | Pele | nom action «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | journey | Pele | to Kauai | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
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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