Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons, sentence 80
She called for a body of her own servants to go down and fight the powerful kupua.
Who acts: Pele · What happens: call, go down, fight · To what, where: powerful kupua · 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 (Pele), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 called | nsubj |
| 2 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 body | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 body | det |
| 5 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 called | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 servants | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 servants | nmod:poss |
| 8 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 servants | amod |
| 9 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 body | nmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 go | mark |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 called | advcl |
| 12 | down | down | ADV | _ | 11 go | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 fight | cc |
| 14 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 go | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 kupua | det |
| 16 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 kupua | amod |
| 17 | kupua | kupua | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fight | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | Pele | for a body of Pele's own servants | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for body=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | go down | to-infinitive | Pele not said here | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | fight | infinitive | Pele not said here | the powerful kupua | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kupua=Co-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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