Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons, sentence 24
In this forest dwelt Pana-ewa, a reptile-man.
What happens: dwell · To what, where: Pana ewa, forest
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 forest | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 forest | det |
| 3 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dwelt | obl |
| 4 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Pana | Pana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 ewa | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Pana | punct |
| 7 | ewa | ewa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dwelt | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 man | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 10 | reptile | reptile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 man | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 reptile | punct |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ewa | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dwelt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | past | Pana ewa and a reptile man | this forest | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme ewa=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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