Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons, sentence 54
Hiiaka swiftly swept her lightning skirt up against the beating rain and drove it back.
Who acts: Hiiaka, lightning · What happens: sweep, skirt up, drive back · To what, where: rain, lightning
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 (Hiiaka, 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 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 swept | nsubj |
| 2 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 3 swept | advmod |
| 3 | swept | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 swept | obj |
| 5 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 skirt | nsubj |
| 6 | skirt | skirt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 swept | ccomp |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 skirt | compound:prt |
| 8 | against | against | ADP | _ | 11 rain | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 rain | det |
| 10 | beating | beating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rain | compound |
| 11 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 skirt | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 drove | cc |
| 13 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 swept | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 drove | obj |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 drove | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 swept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sweep | past | Hiiaka | rain | swiftly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | skirt up | present | lightning | against the beating rain | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | drive back | past | Hiiaka not said here | lightning | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory |
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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