Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 39
Then she started the war of taunting words with which chiefs usually began a conflict.
Who acts: Pele, war, taunting words · What happens: start, taunt, begin, war · To what, where: conflict
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 (Pele, war, taunting words), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 started | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 started | nsubj |
| 3 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 war | det |
| 5 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 began | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 words | case |
| 7 | taunting | taunt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 words | amod |
| 8 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 war | nmod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 which | case |
| 10 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 11 chiefs | det |
| 11 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 words | nmod |
| 12 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 13 began | advmod |
| 13 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 started | parataxis |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 conflict | det |
| 15 | conflict | conflict | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 began | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | Pele | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | taunt | gerund | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | begin | past | the war of taunting words which chiefs | a conflict | usually property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conflict=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | war | taunting words which chiefs | nom war «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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