Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 116
The dragons leaped down on Hiiaka, trying to catch her in their mouths and strike her with their tails.
Who acts: dragons · What happens: leap down, try, catch, strike · To what, where: dragons, Hiiaka, mouths
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 (dragons), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dragons | det |
| 2 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 trying | nsubj |
| 3 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 dragons | acl |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 leaped | compound:prt |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 Hiiaka | case |
| 6 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 leaped | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 dragons | punct |
| 8 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 catch | mark |
| 10 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 trying | xcomp |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 catch | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 mouths | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 mouths | nmod:poss |
| 14 | mouths | mouth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 catch | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 strike | cc |
| 16 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 catch | conj |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 strike | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 tails | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 tails | nmod:poss |
| 20 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 strike | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 trying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leap down | participle | the dragons not said here | Hiiaka | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hiiaka=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | try | gerund | the dragons | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | catch not said to happen | to-infinitive | the dragons not said here | Hiiaka | dragons's mouths | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 4 | strike | infinitive | the dragons not said here | Hiiaka | with dragons's tails | 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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