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Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 47

Hiiaka, like the other sisters, knew how uncertain Pele was in all her moods and how suddenly and unexpectedly her wrath would bring destruction upon anything appearing to oppose her.

Who acts: Hiiaka, Pele, uncertain moods · What happens: know, be, bring, appear, oppose · To what, where: uncertain moods, destruction, Hiiaka · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hopoe, the Dancing Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hiiaka, Pele, uncertain moods), 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

nsubjpunctcasedetamodconjpunctadvmodamodnsubjcopcasedet:predetnmod:possnsubjccadvmodadvmodccconjnmod:possnsubjauxccompobjcaseoblaclmarkxcompobjpunctrootHiiakaPROPN,PUNCTlikeADPtheDETotherADJsistersNOUN,PUNCTknewVERBhowADVuncertainADJPelePROPNwasAUXinADPallDETherPRONmoodsNOUNandCCONJhowADVsuddenlyADVandCCONJunexpectedlyADVherPRONwrathNOUNwouldAUXbringVERBdestructionNOUNuponADPanythingPRONappearingVERBtoPARTopposeVERBherPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HiiakaHiiakaPROPNNumber=Sing8 knewnsubj
2,,PUNCT_6 sisterspunct
3likelikeADP_6 sisterscase
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 sistersdet
5otherotherADJDegree=Pos6 sistersamod
6sisterssisterNOUNNumber=Plur1 Hiiakaconj
7,,PUNCT_1 Hiiakapunct
8knewknowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
9howhowADVPronType=Int10 uncertainadvmod
10uncertainuncertainADJDegree=Pos16 moodsamod
11PelePelePROPNNumber=Sing16 moodsnsubj
12wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin16 moodscop
13ininADP_16 moodscase
14allallDETPronType=Tot16 moodsdet:predet
15herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs16 moodsnmod:poss
16moodsmoodNOUNNumber=Plur25 bringnsubj
17andandCCONJ_19 suddenlycc
18howhowADVPronType=Int19 suddenlyadvmod
19suddenlysuddenlyADV_25 bringadvmod
20andandCCONJ_21 unexpectedlycc
21unexpectedlyunexpectedlyADV_19 suddenlyconj
22herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs23 wrathnmod:poss
23wrathwrathNOUNNumber=Sing25 bringnsubj
24wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin25 bringaux
25bringbringVERBVerbForm=Inf8 knewccomp
26destructiondestructionNOUNNumber=Sing25 bringobj
27uponuponADP_28 anythingcase
28anythinganythingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Ind25 bringobl
29appearingappearVERBVerbForm=Ger28 anythingacl
30totoPART_31 opposemark
31opposeopposeVERBVerbForm=Inf29 appearingxcomp
32hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs31 opposeobj
33..PUNCT_8 knewpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1knowpastHiiaka and the other sistersvn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2ispastPeleHiiaka's uncertain moodsHiiaka nmod:posstree rules
3bringwouldHiiaka's uncertain moodsdestructionupon anything; Hiiaka's wrath nsubj; suddenly propertyvn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent destruction=Theme
4appeargerundvn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5opposeto-infinitiveHiiakavn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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