Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 36
Hiiaka, throwing aside her flower-wreaths and common clothes, took her lightning pa-u (skirt) and attacked Moo-lau.
Who acts: Hiiaka · What happens: throw, take, attack · To what, where: chief, Moo lau
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 | 13 took | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 throwing | punct |
| 3 | throwing | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Hiiaka | acl |
| 4 | aside | aside | ADP | _ | 8 wreaths | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wreaths | nmod:poss |
| 6 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wreaths | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 flower | punct |
| 8 | wreaths | wreath | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 throwing | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 clothes | cc |
| 10 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 clothes | amod |
| 11 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 8 wreaths | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hiiaka | punct |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 took | obj |
| 15 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 u | compound |
| 16 | pa | pa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 u | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 pa | punct |
| 18 | u | u | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obj |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 skirt | punct |
| 20 | skirt | skirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 u | appos |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 skirt | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 attacked | cc |
| 23 | attacked | attack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 took | conj |
| 24 | Moo | moo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lau | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 Moo | punct |
| 26 | lau | lau | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 attacked | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | gerund | Hiiaka not said here | aside Hiiaka's flower wreaths and common clothes | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | take | past | Hiiaka | chief | lightning pa u obj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Theme u=Destination | |||
| 3 | attack | past | Hiiaka not said here | Moo lau | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lau=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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