Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka and the Seacoast Kupuas, sentence 37
They could not catch and destroy him.
Who acts: girls · What happens: not catch, destroy · To what, where: MAHIKI
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 (girls), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 catch | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 catch | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 catch | advmod |
| 4 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 destroy | cc |
| 6 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 catch | conj |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 destroy | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 catch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not catch | could | girls = girl | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | destroy | infinitive | girls = girl not said here | MAHIKI | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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