Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka and the Seacoast Kupuas, sentence 29
He tried to wash her into the sea by pushing great, whirling waves against her, but Hiiaka struck him with the mighty forces of lightning and fire which she had in her magic skirt.
Who acts: MAKAUKIU, Hiiaka · What happens: try, wash, push, whirl, strike, have · To what, where: water, sea, waves, MAKAUKIU, lightning, magic skirt
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, Hiiaka), 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 tried | nsubj |
| 2 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 wash | mark |
| 4 | wash | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tried | xcomp |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wash | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 sea | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sea | det |
| 8 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wash | obl |
| 9 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 10 pushing | mark |
| 10 | pushing | push | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 wash | advcl |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 pushing | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 whirling | punct |
| 13 | whirling | whirl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 pushing | advcl |
| 14 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 whirling | obj |
| 15 | against | against | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 whirling | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 struck | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 struck | cc |
| 19 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 struck | nsubj |
| 20 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 tried | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 struck | obj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 forces | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 forces | det |
| 24 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 forces | amod |
| 25 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 struck | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 lightning | case |
| 27 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 forces | nmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 fire | cc |
| 29 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 lightning | conj |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 had | obj |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 had | nsubj |
| 32 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 lightning | acl:relcl |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 skirt | case |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 skirt | nmod:poss |
| 35 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 skirt | amod |
| 36 | skirt | skirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 had | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | MAKAUKIU | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | wash not said to happen | to-infinitive | MAKAUKIU not said here | water | the sea | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | |||
| 3 | push | gerund | MAKAUKIU not said here | great property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | whirl | gerund | MAKAUKIU not said here | waves | against water | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wave=Theme | |||
| 5 | strike | past | Hiiaka | MAKAUKIU | with the mighty forces of lightning and fire | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with force=Instrument | |||
| 6 | have | past | Hiiaka | lightning and fire | water's magic skirt | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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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