Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 190
Hiiaka loyally fulfilled her oath until she stood with Lohiau on one of the high banks overlooking Ka-lua-Pele, the pit of Pele in the volcano Kilauea.
Who acts: Hiiaka, high banks · What happens: fulfil, stand, overlook · To what, where: oath, Pele
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, high banks), 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 fulfilled | nsubj |
| 2 | loyally | loyally | ADV | _ | 3 fulfilled | advmod |
| 3 | fulfilled | fulfil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 oath | nmod:poss |
| 5 | oath | oath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fulfilled | obj |
| 6 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 8 stood | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 stood | nsubj |
| 8 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fulfilled | advcl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 Lohiau | case |
| 10 | Lohiau | Lohiau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 stood | obl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 one | case |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 stood | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 banks | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 banks | det |
| 15 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 banks | amod |
| 16 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 one | nmod |
| 17 | overlooking | overlook | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 banks | acl |
| 18 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 lua | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Ka | punct |
| 20 | lua | lua | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Pele | nmod:desc |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 Pele | punct |
| 22 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 overlooking | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 pit | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 pit | det |
| 25 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Pele | appos |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Pele | case |
| 27 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 pit | nmod |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 volcano | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 volcano | det |
| 30 | volcano | volcano | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pit | nmod |
| 31 | Kilauea | Kilauea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 volcano | appos |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fulfilled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fulfil | past | Hiiaka | Hiiaka's oath | loyally property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | stand | past | Hiiaka | with Lohiau; on one of the high banks | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on one=Location | ||||
| 3 | overlook | gerund | the high banks not said here | Pele Ka lua | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pele=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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