Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Owl Ghost-god, sentence 12
Assuming the appearance of a splendidly formed young man, Pii went down among the natives with Koa to watch for an opportunity to seize Kau.
Who acts: Pii · What happens: assume, form, go down, watch, seize · To what, where: appearance, natives, Kau
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Owl Ghost-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pii), 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 | Assuming | assume | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 went | advcl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 appearance | det |
| 3 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Assuming | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 man | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 6 | splendidly | splendidly | ADV | _ | 7 formed | advmod |
| 7 | formed | form | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 man | amod |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 appearance | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Assuming | punct |
| 11 | Pii | Pii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | down | down | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 14 | among | among | ADP | _ | 16 natives | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 natives | det |
| 16 | natives | native | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 went | obl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 Koa | case |
| 18 | Koa | Koa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 natives | nmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 watch | mark |
| 20 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 went | advcl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 opportunity | case |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 opportunity | det |
| 23 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 watch | obl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 seize | mark |
| 25 | seize | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 opportunity | acl |
| 26 | Kau | Kau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 seize | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assume | gerund | Pii not said here | the appearance of a formed young man | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=Theme | ||||
| 2 | form | participle | splendidly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go down | past | Pii | the natives with Koa | down property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme among native=Location | |||
| 4 | watch | to-infinitive | Pii not said here | for a opportunity | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for opportunity=Theme | ||||
| 5 | seize | to-infinitive | Pii not said here | Kau | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kau=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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