Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka and the Seacoast Kupuas, sentence 9
All other sea monsters were given human qualities—some were helpful to men and some were destructive.
Who acts: other sea monsters, some · What happens: give, be · To what, where: human qualities, other sea monsters
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 (other sea monsters, some), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 monsters | nsubj |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 monsters | amod |
| 3 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 monsters | compound |
| 4 | monsters | monster | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 given | aux:pass |
| 6 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 monsters | acl |
| 7 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 qualities | amod |
| 8 | qualities | quality | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 given | obj |
| 9 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 helpful | punct |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 helpful | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 helpful | cop |
| 12 | helpful | helpful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 monsters | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 men | case |
| 14 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 helpful | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 destructive | cc |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 destructive | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 destructive | cop |
| 18 | destructive | destructive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 helpful | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 monsters | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · passive | other sea monsters not said here | human qualities | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: quality=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | some | to men; helpful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | some | destructive property | tree rules |
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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