Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 27
“I am above Waipio, My eyes look sharply down.
Who acts: Hiiaka, eyes · What happens: be, look · To what, where: Waipio
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, eyes), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Waipio | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 Waipio | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Waipio | cop |
| 4 | above | above | ADP | _ | 5 Waipio | case |
| 5 | Waipio | Waipio | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 look | punct |
| 7 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 look | nsubj |
| 9 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Waipio | acl:relcl |
| 10 | sharply | sharply | ADV | _ | 11 down | advmod |
| 11 | down | down | ADV | _ | 9 look | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Waipio | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Hiiaka | Waipio | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look in a quote | present | My eyes | Waipio not said here | down property | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme waipio=Attribute |
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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