Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 205
I am the wife—The clouds are blown down Hiding the sea at Hilo.”
Who acts: I, wife · What happens: be, blow down, hide · To what, where: wife, clouds, sea, Hilo
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 (I, wife), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 wife | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wife | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wife | det |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 blown | punct |
| 6 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 clouds | det |
| 7 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 blown | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 blown | aux:pass |
| 9 | blown | blow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 wife | acl:relcl |
| 10 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 blown | compound:prt |
| 11 | Hiding | hide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 blown | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sea | det |
| 13 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Hiding | obj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 Hilo | case |
| 15 | Hilo | Hilo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Hiding | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wife | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wife | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | the wife | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | blow down | present · passive | the wife not said here | the clouds | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | hide | gerund | the wife not said here | the sea | Hilo | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sea=Patient at hilo=Location |
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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