Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons, sentence 60
The forest birds in multitudes screamed around her, dashed against her, tried to pick out her eyes and confuse her every effort.
Who acts: forest birds · What happens: scream, dash, try, pick out, confuse · To what, where: eyes, Hiiaka
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 (forest birds), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 birds | det |
| 2 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 birds | compound |
| 3 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 screamed | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 multitudes | case |
| 5 | multitudes | multitude | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 birds | nmod |
| 6 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | around | around | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 screamed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dashed | punct |
| 10 | dashed | dash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 screamed | conj |
| 11 | against | against | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 dashed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tried | punct |
| 14 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 screamed | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 pick | mark |
| 16 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 tried | xcomp |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 pick | compound:prt |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 19 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 pick | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 confuse | cc |
| 21 | confuse | confuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 pick | conj |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 confuse | obj |
| 23 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 effort | det |
| 24 | effort | effort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 confuse | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 screamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scream speech: express | past | the forest birds in multitudes | around Hiiaka | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around she=Location | ||||
| 2 | dash | past | the forest birds in multitudes not said here | against Hiiaka | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against she=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | try | past | the forest birds in multitudes not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | pick out not said to happen | to-infinitive | the forest birds in multitudes not said here | Hiiaka's eyes | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 5 | confuse | present | the forest birds in multitudes not said here | Hiiaka | every effort obj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer effort=Result |
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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