Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons, sentence 8
It was thrown over Hiiaka, the most beautiful drapery which could be provided.
What happens: throw, provide · To what, where: skirt, Hiiaka, beautiful drapery
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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thrown | aux:pass |
| 3 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 5 Hiiaka | case |
| 5 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 thrown | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 drapery | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 drapery | det |
| 8 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 9 beautiful | advmod |
| 9 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 drapery | amod |
| 10 | drapery | drapery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Hiiaka | appos |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 provided | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 provided | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 provided | aux:pass |
| 14 | provided | provide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 drapery | acl:relcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thrown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past · passive | skirt | Hiiaka | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme over hiiaka=Destination | ||||
| 2 | provide | could · passive | the beautiful drapery | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: subject=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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