Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 77
She captured the wandering ghost of Lohiau and compelled it again to take up its home in the body, and then with Lohiau and Wahine-omao made the long journey to her home in the volcano.
Who acts: substance, Lohiau · What happens: capture, compel, take up, make, ghost · To what, where: wandering ghost, ghost, home, body, long journey, volcano
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 (substance, Lohiau), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 captured | nsubj |
| 2 | captured | capture | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ghost | det |
| 4 | wandering | wandering | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ghost | amod |
| 5 | ghost | ghost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 captured | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Lohiau | case |
| 7 | Lohiau | Lohiau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 ghost | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 compelled | cc |
| 9 | compelled | compel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 captured | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 compelled | obj |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 compelled | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 take | mark |
| 13 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 compelled | advcl |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 take | compound:prt |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 home | nmod:poss |
| 16 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 take | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 body | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 body | det |
| 19 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 take | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 made | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 made | cc |
| 22 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 Lohiau | advmod |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 Lohiau | case |
| 24 | Lohiau | Lohiau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 made | nsubj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 omao | cc |
| 26 | Wahine | Wahine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 omao | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 Wahine | punct |
| 28 | omao | omao | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Lohiau | conj |
| 29 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 captured | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 journey | det |
| 31 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 journey | amod |
| 32 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 made | obj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 home | case |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 home | nmod:poss |
| 35 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 made | obl |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 volcano | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 volcano | det |
| 38 | volcano | volcano | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 made | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 captured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | capture | past | substance | the wandering ghost of Lohiau | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ghost=Theme | ||||
| 2 | compel | past | substance not said here | ghost | again | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 3 | take up | to-infinitive | substance not said here | ghost's home | the body | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent home=Value in body=Location | |||
| 4 | make | past | Lohiau and Wahine omao | the long journey | the volcano | to substance's home | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Product | ||
| 5 | ghost | Lohiau | nom ghost «cognition 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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