Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons, sentence 78
The discouraged woman felt that the battle was going against her, so she called for Pele, the goddess of fire.
Who acts: discouraged woman, battle · What happens: feel, go, call · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (discouraged woman, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 woman | det |
| 2 | discouraged | discouraged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 felt | nsubj |
| 4 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 going | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 battle | det |
| 7 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 going | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 going | aux |
| 9 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 felt | advcl |
| 10 | against | against | ADP | _ | 11 her | case |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 going | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 called | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 called | advmod |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 called | nsubj |
| 15 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 felt | conj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 Pele | case |
| 17 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 called | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 goddess | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 goddess | det |
| 20 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Pele | appos |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 fire | case |
| 22 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 goddess | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | the discouraged woman | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | go | past · progressive | the battle | against road | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme against she=Location | ||||
| 3 | call | past | battle | for Pele | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for pele=Recipient |
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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