Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons, sentence 9
Pau-o-palae was clothed with a network of most delicate ferns.
What happens: clothe · To what, where: Pau
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 | Pau | Pau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 clothed | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 palae | punct |
| 3 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 5 palae | case |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 o | punct |
| 5 | palae | palae | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pau | appos |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 clothed | aux:pass |
| 7 | clothed | clothe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 network | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 network | det |
| 10 | network | network | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 clothed | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 ferns | case |
| 12 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 ferns | amod |
| 13 | delicate | delicate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ferns | amod |
| 14 | ferns | fern | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 network | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 clothed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clothe | past · passive | Pau | with a network of most delicate ferns | vn dress-41.1.1 «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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