Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons, sentence 92
The kupuas were swept down the river beds and out into the ocean, where Pana-ewa and the remnant of his followers were devoured by sharks.
Who acts: sharks · What happens: sweep, devour · To what, where: kupuas, river beds, remnant
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 (sharks), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 kupuas | det |
| 2 | kupuas | kupua | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 swept | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 swept | aux:pass |
| 4 | swept | sweep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 beds | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 beds | det |
| 7 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 beds | compound |
| 8 | beds | bed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 swept | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 ocean | cc |
| 10 | out | out | ADV | _ | 13 ocean | advmod |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 ocean | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ocean | det |
| 13 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 beds | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ewa | punct |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 ewa | advmod |
| 16 | Pana | Pana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 ewa | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Pana | punct |
| 18 | ewa | ewa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ocean | appos |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 remnant | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 remnant | det |
| 21 | remnant | remnant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ewa | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 followers | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 followers | nmod:poss |
| 24 | followers | follower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 devoured | obl |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 devoured | aux:pass |
| 26 | devoured | devour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 remnant | acl:relcl |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 sharks | case |
| 28 | sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 devoured | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 swept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sweep | past · passive | the kupuas | the river beds and the ocean | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme down bed=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | devour | past · passive | sharks | the remnant not said here | of thunderstorm's followers | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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