Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons, sentence 10
She was noted because of her magic power over all the ferns of the forest, and for her skill in using the most graceful fronds for clothing and garlands.
Who acts: skill · What happens: note, use · To what, where: Pau, ferns, graceful fronds
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (skill), 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 | 3 noted | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 noted | aux:pass |
| 3 | noted | note | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 8 power | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 because | fixed |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 power | nmod:poss |
| 7 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 power | amod |
| 8 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 noted | obl |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 ferns | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 ferns | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ferns | det |
| 12 | ferns | fern | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 noted | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 forest | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 forest | det |
| 15 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ferns | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 skill | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 skill | cc |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 skill | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 skill | nmod:poss |
| 20 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 noted | parataxis |
| 21 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 22 using | mark |
| 22 | using | use | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 skill | acl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 fronds | det |
| 24 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 25 graceful | advmod |
| 25 | graceful | graceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 fronds | amod |
| 26 | fronds | frond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 using | obj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 clothing | case |
| 28 | clothing | clothing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 fronds | nmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 garlands | cc |
| 30 | garlands | garland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 fronds | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 noted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | note | past · passive | Pau | all ferns of the forest | because Pau's magic power; Pau's skill parataxis | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||
| 2 | use | gerund | Pau's skill not said here | the graceful fronds and garlands | for clothing | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent frond=Theme for clothing=Eventuality |
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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