Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 40
She called to him giving him all the characteristics of a hog.
Who acts: war · What happens: call, give · To what, where: stranger, characteristics · 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 (war), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 called | nsubj |
| 2 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 called | obl |
| 5 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 called | xcomp |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 giving | iobj |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 characteristics | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 characteristics | det |
| 9 | characteristics | characteristic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 giving | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 hog | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 hog | det |
| 12 | hog | hog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 characteristics | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | war | stranger | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | give | gerund | war not said here | all characteristics of a hog | stranger | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient characteristic=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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