Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons, sentence 52
He called also for the strong winds to bend down trees and smite his enemy, and lie in tangled masses in her path.
Who acts: body · What happens: call, bend down, smite, lie, tangle · To what, where: trees, enemy, tangled masses · 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 (body), 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 called | nsubj |
| 2 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 2 called | advmod |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 winds | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 winds | det |
| 6 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 winds | amod |
| 7 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 called | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 bend | mark |
| 9 | bend | bend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 called | advcl |
| 10 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 bend | compound:prt |
| 11 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 bend | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 smite | cc |
| 13 | smite | smite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 bend | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 enemy | nmod:poss |
| 15 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 smite | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lie | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 lie | cc |
| 18 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 called | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 masses | case |
| 20 | tangled | tangle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 masses | amod |
| 21 | masses | mass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 lie | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 path | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 path | nmod:poss |
| 24 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 masses | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | body | for the strong winds | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for wind=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | bend down | to-infinitive | body not said here | trees | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent tree=Material | ||||
| 3 | smite | infinitive | body not said here | body's enemy | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus enemy=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | lie | infinitive | body not said here | tangled masses in rain's path | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in mass=Location | ||||
| 5 | tangle | participle | 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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