Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons, sentence 44
Pana-ewa, roused by his bird watchmen and stirred by the taunt of Hiiaka, said: “This is Hiiaka, who shall be killed by me.
Who acts: Pana ewa, This · What happens: rouse, stir, say, be, kill, taunt · To what, where: Pana ewa, Hiiaka · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Pana ewa, This), 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 | Pana | Pana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ewa | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pana | punct |
| 3 | ewa | ewa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 roused | punct |
| 5 | roused | rouse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ewa | acl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 watchmen | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 watchmen | nmod:poss |
| 8 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 watchmen | compound |
| 9 | watchmen | watchman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 roused | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 stirred | cc |
| 11 | stirred | stir | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 roused | conj |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 taunt | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 taunt | det |
| 14 | taunt | taunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stirred | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Hiiaka | case |
| 16 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 taunt | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ewa | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 Hiiaka | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Hiiaka | punct |
| 21 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 Hiiaka | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 Hiiaka | cop |
| 23 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 said | ccomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 killed | punct |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 killed | aux |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 killed | aux:pass |
| 28 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 Hiiaka | acl |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 me | case |
| 30 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 killed | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rouse | participle | Pana ewa not said here | by fire's bird watchmen | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | stir | participle | by the taunt of Hiiaka | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by taunt=Location | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Pana ewa | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | This | Hiiaka | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | kill in a quote | shall · passive | Pana ewa = ewa | Hiiaka | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 6 | taunt | Hiiaka | nom taunt «act 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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