Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 87
Hiiaka said: “There was no real reason for death, but the two women dragons took his spirit and held it captive.
Who acts: Hiiaka, women dragons · What happens: say, be, take, hold · To what, where: real reason, spirit · 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, women dragons), 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 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 reason | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 was | punct |
| 5 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 was | expl |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 reason | cop |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 reason | det |
| 8 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 reason | amod |
| 9 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | ccomp |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 death | case |
| 11 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reason | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 took | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 took | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 women | det |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 women | nummod |
| 16 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 dragons | compound |
| 17 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 took | nsubj |
| 18 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | parataxis |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 spirit | nmod:poss |
| 20 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 took | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 held | cc |
| 22 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 took | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 held | obj |
| 24 | captive | captive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 held | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Hiiaka | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | no real reason | for death | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take in a quote | past | women dragons | Kaunu's spirit | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hold in a quote | past | women dragons not said here | spirit | captive property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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