Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons, sentence 34

There were two bird-brothers of Pana-ewa; very little birds, swift as a flash of lightning, giving notice of any one coming through the forest of Pana-ewa.

Who acts: two bird brothers, one, lightning · What happens: be, give, come, flash, notice · To what, where: little birds, notice, forest, one

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 (two bird brothers, one, lightning), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 brothers	nummod
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 brothers	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 bird	punct
6	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 ewa	case
8	Pana	Pana	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 ewa	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 Pana	punct
10	ewa	ewa	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 brothers	nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 birds	punct
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 little	advmod
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 birds	amod
14	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 swift	punct
16	swift	swift	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 birds	conj
17	as	as	ADP	_	19 flash	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 flash	det
19	flash	flash	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 swift	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 lightning	case
21	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 flash	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 giving	punct
23	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 birds	conj
24	notice	notice	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 giving	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 one	case
26	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	27 one	det
27	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 notice	nmod
28	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 one	acl
29	through	through	ADP	_	31 forest	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 forest	det
31	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 coming	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	35 ewa	case
33	Pana	Pana	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 ewa	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 Pana	punct
35	ewa	ewa	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 forest	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	be	past	two bird brothers of Pana ewa	little birds and swift as a flash of lightning	there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	give	gerund	two bird brothers of Pana ewa not said here	notice of any one		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme
3	come	gerund	any one not said here		the forest of Pana ewa	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through forest=Initial_Location
4	flash		lightning			nom flash «event intransitive»: of=agent
5	notice			any one		nom notice «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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🌲 Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons, sentence 34

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons, sentence 34