Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons, sentence 89
As he had fought Hiiaka with the cold forest winds, so Pele fought him with the storms from the pit of fire.
Who acts: thunderstorm, Pele · What happens: fight · To what, where: Hiiaka, thunderstorm
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 (thunderstorm, 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 fought | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fought | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fought | aux |
| 4 | fought | fight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 fought | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 winds | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 winds | det |
| 8 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 winds | amod |
| 9 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 winds | compound |
| 10 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fought | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fought | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 fought | advmod |
| 13 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 fought | nsubj |
| 14 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fought | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 fought | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 storms | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 storms | det |
| 18 | storms | storm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 fought | obl |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 pit | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 pit | det |
| 21 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 storms | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 fire | case |
| 23 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pit | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past · perfect | thunderstorm | Hiiaka | with the cold forest winds | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hiiaka=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | fight | past | Pele | thunderstorm | with the storms from the pit of fire | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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