Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 114
One large stone struck Hiiaka in the breast, and she fell off the pali.
Who acts: One large stone, stone · What happens: strike, fall off · To what, where: Hiiaka, breast, pali
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pili and Noho. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One large stone, stone), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 stone | nummod |
| 2 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stone | amod |
| 3 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 struck | nsubj |
| 4 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 struck | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 breast | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 breast | det |
| 8 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 struck | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fell | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fell | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 fell | nsubj |
| 12 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 struck | conj |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 pali | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 pali | det |
| 15 | pali | pali | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fell | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past | One large stone | Hiiaka | the breast | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent hiiaka=Instrument | |||
| 2 | fall off | past | stone | the pali | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient pali=Extent |
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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