Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 239
Wahine-omao went to Hiiaka and softly chanted by the side of the crazy one who was breaking up the pit.
Who acts: Wahine omao, crazy one · What happens: go, chant, break up · To what, where: Hiiaka, pit
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 (Wahine omao, crazy one), 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 | Wahine | Wahine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 omao | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wahine | punct |
| 3 | omao | omao | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Hiiaka | case |
| 6 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 chanted | cc |
| 8 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 9 chanted | advmod |
| 9 | chanted | chant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 went | conj |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 side | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 side | det |
| 12 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 chanted | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 one | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 one | det |
| 15 | crazy | crazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 one | amod |
| 16 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 side | nmod |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 breaking | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 breaking | aux |
| 19 | breaking | break | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 one | acl:relcl |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 breaking | compound:prt |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 pit | det |
| 22 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 breaking | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Wahine omao | Hiiaka | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hiiaka=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | chant | participle | Wahine omao not said here | by the side of the crazy one; softly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | break up | past · progressive | the crazy one | the pit | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pit=Patient |
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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