Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons, sentence 48
He attacked Hiiaka in his fog body, Kino-ohu, and threw around her his twisting fog-arms, chilling her and choking her and blinding her.
Who acts: voice · What happens: attack, throw, chill, choke, blind · To what, where: Hiiaka, fog body, twisting fog arms
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 (voice), 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 | 2 attacked | nsubj |
| 2 | attacked | attack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 attacked | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 body | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 body | nmod:poss |
| 6 | fog | fog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 body | compound |
| 7 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 attacked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Kino | punct |
| 9 | Kino | Kino | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 body | appos |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 ohu | punct |
| 11 | ohu | ohu | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 Kino | dep |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 threw | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 threw | cc |
| 14 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 attacked | parataxis |
| 15 | around | around | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 threw | obl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 arms | nmod:poss |
| 18 | twisting | twisting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 arms | compound |
| 19 | fog | fog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 arms | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 fog | punct |
| 21 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 threw | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 chilling | punct |
| 23 | chilling | chill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 threw | advcl |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 chilling | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 choking | cc |
| 26 | choking | choke | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 chilling | conj |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 choking | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 blinding | cc |
| 29 | blinding | blind | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 choking | conj |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 blinding | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 attacked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attack | past | voice | Hiiaka | voice's fog body | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hiiaka=Patient | |||
| 2 | throw | past | voice's twisting fog arms | around Hiiaka | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent arm=Theme around she=Destination | ||||
| 3 | chill | gerund | Hiiaka | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | choke | gerund | Hiiaka | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Destination | |||||
| 5 | blind | gerund | Hiiaka | tree rules |
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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