Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka and the Seacoast Kupuas, sentence 28
He lashed the water into foam, trying to strike her with his tail.
Who acts: MAKAUKIU · What happens: lash, try, strike · To what, where: water, foam
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 (MAKAUKIU), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lashed | nsubj |
| 2 | lashed | lash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 water | det |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lashed | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 foam | case |
| 6 | foam | foam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lashed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 trying | punct |
| 8 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 lashed | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 strike | mark |
| 10 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 trying | xcomp |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 strike | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 tail | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 tail | nmod:poss |
| 14 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 strike | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lashed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lash | past | MAKAUKIU | the water | into foam result | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent water=Patient into foam=Result | |||
| 2 | try | gerund | MAKAUKIU not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | strike not said to happen | to-infinitive | MAKAUKIU not said here | water | with MAKAUKIU's tail | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Patient with tail=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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