Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons, sentence 25
He was very strong and could be animal or man as he desired, and could make the change in a moment.
Who acts: man · What happens: be, desire, make · To what, where: animal, change
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 (man), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 strong | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 strong | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 strong | advmod |
| 4 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 animal | cc |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 animal | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 animal | cop |
| 8 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 strong | conj |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 man | cc |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 animal | conj |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 desired | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 desired | nsubj |
| 13 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 animal | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 make | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 make | cc |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 make | aux |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 strong | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 change | det |
| 19 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 make | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 moment | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 moment | det |
| 22 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 make | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 strong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | man | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | could | man not said here | animal or man | man conj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | desire | past | man | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | make | could | the change | moment | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset change=Product |
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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