Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 24
Hiiaka and her friends turned north again and hastened to Waipio Valley to catch Mahiki—the demon of the whirlwind.
Who acts: Hiiaka · What happens: turn, hasten, catch · To what, where: Waipio Valley, Mahiki
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), 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 | 5 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 friends | cc |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 friends | nmod:poss |
| 4 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Hiiaka | conj |
| 5 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | north | north | ADV | _ | 5 turned | advmod |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 turned | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 hastened | cc |
| 9 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 turned | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Valley | case |
| 11 | Waipio | Waipio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Valley | compound |
| 12 | Valley | Valley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 hastened | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 catch | mark |
| 14 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 hastened | advcl |
| 15 | Mahiki | Mahiki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 catch | obj |
| 16 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 demon | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 demon | det |
| 18 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Mahiki | appos |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 whirlwind | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 whirlwind | det |
| 21 | whirlwind | whirlwind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 demon | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | Hiiaka and Hiiaka's friends | again | north property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | hasten | participle | Hiiaka and Hiiaka's friends not said here | Waipio Valley | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to valley=Result | ||||
| 3 | catch | to-infinitive | Hiiaka and Hiiaka's friends not said here | Mahiki | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mahiki=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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