Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka and the Seacoast Kupuas, sentence 17
Hiiaka, the sister of Pele, the goddess of volcanoes, by her magic power was able to find and destroy many of these mysterious monsters.
Who acts: magic power · What happens: be, find, destroy · To what, where: many, Hiiaka
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hiiaka and the Seacoast Kupuas. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magic power), 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 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sister | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sister | det |
| 4 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hiiaka | appos |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Pele | case |
| 6 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sister | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 goddess | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 goddess | det |
| 9 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hiiaka | appos |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 volcanoes | case |
| 11 | volcanoes | volcano | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 goddess | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 able | punct |
| 13 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 18 able | mark |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 power | nmod:poss |
| 15 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 power | amod |
| 16 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 able | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 able | cop |
| 18 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Hiiaka | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 find | mark |
| 20 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 able | xcomp |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 destroy | cc |
| 22 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 find | conj |
| 23 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 destroy | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 monsters | case |
| 25 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 27 monsters | det |
| 26 | mysterious | mysterious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 monsters | amod |
| 27 | monsters | monster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 many | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hiiaka | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Pele's magic power | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | Pele's magic power not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | destroy | infinitive | Pele's magic power not said here | many of this mysterious monsters | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=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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