Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 86
Hiiaka asked about the death of Lohiau, and one sister said, “His breath left him and the body became yellow.”
Who acts: Hiiaka, one sister, breath, body, Lohiau · What happens: ask, say, leave, become, die · To what, where: Kaunu · 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 (Hiiaka, one sister, breath, body), 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 | 2 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 death | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 death | det |
| 5 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 asked | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Lohiau | case |
| 7 | Lohiau | Lohiau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 death | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 sister | nummod |
| 11 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 asked | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 left | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 left | punct |
| 15 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 breath | nmod:poss |
| 16 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 left | nsubj |
| 17 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 left | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 became | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 body | det |
| 21 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 became | nsubj |
| 22 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 left | conj |
| 23 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 became | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 asked | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Hiiaka | about the death of Lohiau | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.topic whether S»: agent=Agent about death=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | one sister | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | leave in a quote | past | Kaunu's breath | Kaunu | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | become in a quote | past | the body | yellow property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | die | Lohiau | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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