Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons, sentence 91
A mighty rain filled the valleys with red water.
Who acts: mighty rain · What happens: fill · To what, where: valleys
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 (mighty rain), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 rain | det |
| 2 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rain | amod |
| 3 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 filled | nsubj |
| 4 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 valleys | det |
| 6 | valleys | valley | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 filled | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 water | case |
| 8 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 water | amod |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 valleys | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past | a mighty rain | the valleys | with red water | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent valley=Patient with water=Instrument |
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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