Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 72
The story of Hiiaka’s journey over the seas which surround the Hawaiian Islands, and through dangers and perplexities, cannot be fully told in the limits of these short stories.
Who acts: seas, Hiiaka · What happens: surround, not tell, journey · To what, where: Hawaiian Islands, story, dangers, seas · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (seas, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 story | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 journey | case |
| 4 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 journey | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Hiiaka | case |
| 6 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 story | nmod |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 seas | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 seas | det |
| 9 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 journey | nmod |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 surround | nsubj |
| 11 | surround | surround | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 seas | acl:relcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Islands | det |
| 13 | Hawaiian | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Islands | compound |
| 14 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 surround | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 told | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 told | cc |
| 17 | through | through | ADP | _ | 18 dangers | case |
| 18 | dangers | danger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 told | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 perplexities | cc |
| 20 | perplexities | perplexity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 dangers | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 dangers | punct |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 told | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 told | advmod |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 told | aux:pass |
| 25 | fully | fully | ADV | _ | 26 told | advmod |
| 26 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 story | acl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 limits | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 limits | det |
| 29 | limits | limit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 told | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 stories | case |
| 31 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 33 stories | det |
| 32 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 stories | amod |
| 33 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 limits | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 story | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | surround | present | the seas | the Hawaiian Islands | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme island=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | not tell speech: assert | can · passive | the story of Hiiaka's journey over the seas not said here | dangers and perplexities | in the limits of this short stories; fully property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V» | |||
| 4 | journey | Hiiaka | the seas | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent over=place |
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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