Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons, sentence 68
From each side she was beaten and sometimes almost crushed under the weight of her opponents.
What happens: beat, crush · To what, where: Hiiaka, side, weight
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: 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 side | case |
| 2 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 side | det |
| 3 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 beaten | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 beaten | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 beaten | aux:pass |
| 6 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 crushed | cc |
| 8 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 10 crushed | advmod |
| 9 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 10 crushed | advmod |
| 10 | crushed | crush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 beaten | conj |
| 11 | under | under | ADP | _ | 13 weight | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 weight | det |
| 13 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 crushed | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 opponents | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 opponents | nmod:poss |
| 16 | opponents | opponent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 weight | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 beaten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | past · passive | Hiiaka | each side | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | crush | participle | the weight of Hiiaka's opponents | almost, sometimes property | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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