Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Owl Ghost-god, sentence 25
Their chief’s wife had caught an ikoi, a heavy piece of wood fastened to a long, stout cord.
Who acts: wife · What happens: catch, fasten · To what, where: ikoi, heavy piece
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 (wife), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 chief | nmod:poss |
| 2 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wife | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 chief | case |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 caught | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 caught | aux |
| 6 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 ikoi | det |
| 8 | ikoi | ikoi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 caught | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 piece | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 piece | det |
| 11 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 piece | amod |
| 12 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ikoi | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 wood | case |
| 14 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 piece | nmod |
| 15 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 piece | acl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 cord | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 cord | det |
| 18 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 cord | amod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 long | punct |
| 20 | stout | stout | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 cord | amod |
| 21 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fastened | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past · perfect | warriors's chief's wife | a ikoi | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ikoi=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fasten | participle | a heavy piece of wood not said here | to a long stout cord | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to cord=Co-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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