Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons, sentence 84
Hiiaka in her weariness sank down among the foes she had slain.
Who acts: Hiiaka, foes · What happens: sink down, slay · To what, where: Hiiaka
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 (Hiiaka, foes), 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 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sank | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 weariness | case |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 weariness | nmod:poss |
| 4 | weariness | weariness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hiiaka | nmod |
| 5 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 sank | advmod |
| 7 | among | among | ADP | _ | 9 foes | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 foes | det |
| 9 | foes | foe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sank | obl |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 slain | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 slain | aux |
| 12 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 foes | acl:relcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sink down | past | Hiiaka in Hiiaka's weariness | among the foes; down property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | slay | past · perfect · passive | the foes not said here | Hiiaka | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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