Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons, sentence 65
I give you hurt, Behold, I give the hard blows of battle.”
Who acts: I, you, battle · What happens: give, hurt, blow · To what, where: hard blows
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 (I, you, battle), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 give | nsubj |
| 2 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 hurt | nsubj |
| 4 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 give | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 give | punct |
| 6 | Behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 9 give | discourse |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Behold | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 give | nsubj |
| 9 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 give | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 blows | det |
| 11 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 blows | amod |
| 12 | blows | blow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 give | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 battle | case |
| 14 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 blows | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 give | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | hurt | past | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | give | present | I | the hard blows of battle | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Theme | ||||
| 4 | blow | battle | nom blow «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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