Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons, sentence 13
It was a queen of highest legendary honor with one of her most worthy attendants setting forth on a strange quest through lands abounding in dangers and adventures.
Who acts: form, most worthy attendants, lands · What happens: be, set, abound · To what, where: queen, strange quest, dangers
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 (form, most worthy attendants, lands), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 queen | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 queen | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 queen | det |
| 4 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 honor | case |
| 6 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 honor | amod |
| 7 | legendary | legendary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 honor | amod |
| 8 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 queen | nmod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 one | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 honor | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 attendants | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 attendants | nmod:poss |
| 13 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 attendants | amod |
| 14 | worthy | worthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 attendants | amod |
| 15 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 one | nmod |
| 16 | setting | set | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 attendants | acl |
| 17 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 16 setting | advmod |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 quest | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 quest | det |
| 20 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 quest | amod |
| 21 | quest | quest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 setting | obl |
| 22 | through | through | ADP | _ | 23 lands | case |
| 23 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 setting | obl |
| 24 | abounding | abound | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 lands | acl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 dangers | case |
| 26 | dangers | danger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 abounding | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 adventures | cc |
| 28 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 dangers | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 queen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | form | a queen | of highest legendary honor with one of Pau's most worthy attendants | tree rules | |||
| 2 | set | gerund | Pau's most worthy attendants not said here | a strange quest | through lands; forth property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on quest=Destination | |||
| 3 | abound | gerund | lands not said here | dangers and adventures | vn swarm-47.5.1-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in danger=Location |
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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