Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 59
Pele was bitterly angry and tried her best to destroy her tormentor.
Who acts: Pele · What happens: be, try, destroy · To what, where: best, tormentor
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), 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 | Pele | pele | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 angry | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 angry | cop |
| 3 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 4 angry | advmod |
| 4 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 tried | cc |
| 6 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 angry | conj |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 best | nmod:poss |
| 8 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 tried | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 destroy | mark |
| 10 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 tried | xcomp |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 tormentor | nmod:poss |
| 12 | tormentor | tormentor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 destroy | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Pele | angry, bitterly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | try | past | Pele not said here | Pele's best | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | destroy not said to happen | to-infinitive | Pele not said here | Pele's tormentor | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tormentor=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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