Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 10
It was claimed that the hog-man could change himself into this fish as easily as into a hog.
Who acts: hog man · What happens: claim, change · To what, where: fish, man, hog · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kama-puaa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hog man), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 claimed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 claimed | aux:pass |
| 3 | claimed | claim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 change | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 6 | hog | hog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 man | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 hog | punct |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 change | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 change | aux |
| 10 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 claimed | ccomp |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 change | obj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 fish | case |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 fish | det |
| 14 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 change | obl |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 easily | advmod |
| 16 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 10 change | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 easily | advmod |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 hog | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 hog | det |
| 20 | hog | hog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 change | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 claimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | claim speech: other | past · passive | fish | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | change | could | the hog man | man | a hog | into this fish result; easily property | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into fish=Result |
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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