Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 5
He usually appeared as a man, but when his brutal desires to destroy overcame him or when he wished to hide from any one he adopted the form of a hog.
Who acts: puaa, brutal desires · What happens: appear, destroy, overcame, wish, hide, adopt · To what, where: puaa, form, hog
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 (puaa, brutal desires), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 appeared | nsubj |
| 2 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 3 appeared | advmod |
| 3 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 man | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 appeared | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 overcame | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 overcame | cc |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 overcame | advmod |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 desires | nmod:poss |
| 11 | brutal | brutal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 desires | amod |
| 12 | desires | desire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 overcame | nsubj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 destroy | mark |
| 14 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 desires | acl |
| 15 | overcame | overcame | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 appeared | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 overcame | obj |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 wished | cc |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 wished | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 wished | nsubj |
| 20 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 appeared | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 hide | mark |
| 22 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 wished | xcomp |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 one | case |
| 24 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 one | det |
| 25 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hide | obl |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 adopted | nsubj |
| 27 | adopted | adopt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 one | acl:relcl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 form | det |
| 29 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 adopted | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 hog | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 hog | det |
| 32 | hog | hog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 form | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | puaa | as a man; usually property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | destroy | to-infinitive | puaa's brutal desires not said here | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | overcame | infinitive | puaa's brutal desires | puaa | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | wish | past | puaa | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | hide not said to happen | to-infinitive | puaa not said here | from any one | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from one=Beneficiary | ||||
| 6 | adopt | past | puaa | the form of a hog | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme | ||||
| 7 | desire | puaa | nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | form | a hog | nom form «communication transitive»: of=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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