Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons, sentence 12
She was very beautiful in her fern skirt and garland, but Hiiaka was of higher birth and nobler form and was more royal in her beauty than her follower, the goddess of ferns.
Who acts: Pau, Hiiaka · What happens: be · To what, where: fern skirt, beauty
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 (Pau, Hiiaka), 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 | 4 beautiful | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 beautiful | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 beautiful | advmod |
| 4 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 skirt | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 skirt | nmod:poss |
| 7 | fern | fern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 skirt | compound |
| 8 | skirt | skirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beautiful | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 garland | cc |
| 10 | garland | garland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 skirt | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 birth | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 birth | cc |
| 13 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 birth | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 birth | cop |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 birth | case |
| 16 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 birth | amod |
| 17 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beautiful | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 form | cc |
| 19 | nobler | noble | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 form | amod |
| 20 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 birth | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 royal | cc |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 royal | cop |
| 23 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 24 royal | advmod |
| 24 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 birth | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 beauty | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 27 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 royal | obl |
| 28 | than | than | ADP | _ | 30 follower | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 follower | nmod:poss |
| 30 | follower | follower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 beauty | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 goddess | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 goddess | det |
| 33 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 beauty | conj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 ferns | case |
| 35 | ferns | fern | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 goddess | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 beautiful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Pau | Pau's fern skirt and garland | beautiful property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | Hiiaka | of higher birth and nobler form; nobler form conj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Hiiaka not said here | Pau's beauty than Pau's follower and the goddess of ferns | royal property | tree rules |
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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