Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons, sentence 69
Many she cut down with her bamboo knife and many she struck with her lightning skirt.
Who acts: Many · What happens: cut down, strike
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 (Many), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cut | nsubj |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 cut | nsubj |
| 3 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 cut | advmod |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 knife | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 knife | nmod:poss |
| 7 | bamboo | bamboo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 knife | compound |
| 8 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cut | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 struck | cc |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 struck | nsubj |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 struck | nsubj |
| 12 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cut | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 skirt | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 skirt | nmod:poss |
| 15 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 skirt | compound |
| 16 | skirt | skirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 struck | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut down | past | Many | with Hiiaka's bamboo knife; Hiiaka nsubj; down property | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with knife=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | strike | past | many | with Hiiaka's lightning skirt; Hiiaka nsubj | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with skirt=Theme |
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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