Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 109
Kama-puaa gave up the battle, and, thoroughly defeated, changed himself into a fish.
Who acts: Kama puaa · What happens: give up, defeat, change · To what, where: battle, puaa
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 (Kama puaa), 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 | Kama | Kama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 puaa | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Kama | punct |
| 3 | puaa | puaa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 gave | compound:prt |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 battle | det |
| 7 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 defeated | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 defeated | cc |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 defeated | punct |
| 11 | thoroughly | thoroughly | ADV | _ | 12 defeated | advmod |
| 12 | defeated | defeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 gave | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 changed | punct |
| 14 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gave | conj |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 changed | obj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 fish | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 fish | det |
| 18 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 changed | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give up | past | Kama puaa | the battle | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Source | ||||
| 2 | defeat | participle | Kama puaa not said here | thoroughly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | change | past | Kama puaa not said here | puaa | into a fish result | 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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