Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons, sentence 87
She saw him coming and wearily arose to give battle once more.
Who acts: Hiiaka, test · What happens: see, come, arise, give · To what, where: test, battle
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, test), 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 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | obj |
| 4 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 saw | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 arose | cc |
| 6 | wearily | wearily | ADV | _ | 7 arose | advmod |
| 7 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 give | mark |
| 9 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 arose | xcomp |
| 10 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 give | obj |
| 11 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 12 more | advmod |
| 12 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 give | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Hiiaka | test | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | gerund | test not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | arise | past | Hiiaka not said here | wearily property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | give | to-infinitive | Hiiaka not said here | battle | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent battle=Recipient more=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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