Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 54
Meanwhile Moo-lau had sent his people to spy out the condition of Hiiaka.
What happens: send, spy out, condition · To what, where: Meanwhile Moo lau, condition, Hiiaka
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: 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lau | amod |
| 2 | Moo | moo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lau | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Moo | punct |
| 4 | lau | lau | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sent | aux |
| 6 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 people | nmod:poss |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sent | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 spy | mark |
| 10 | spy | spy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sent | advcl |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 spy | compound:prt |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 condition | det |
| 13 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spy | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Hiiaka | case |
| 15 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 condition | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past · perfect · passive | Meanwhile Moo lau | LAU's people obj | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination people=Theme | ||||
| 2 | spy out | to-infinitive | the condition of Hiiaka | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer condition=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | condition | Hiiaka | nom condition «state transitive»: of=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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