Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 119
She swung her skirt up against the dragons, and burned their bodies to ashes.
Who acts: Hiiaka · What happens: swing, skirt up, burn · To what, where: bodies
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 (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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 swung | nsubj |
| 2 | swung | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 skirt | nmod:poss |
| 4 | skirt | skirt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 swung | xcomp |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 skirt | compound:prt |
| 6 | against | against | ADP | _ | 8 dragons | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dragons | det |
| 8 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 skirt | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 burned | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 burned | cc |
| 11 | burned | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 swung | conj |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 bodies | nmod:poss |
| 13 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 burned | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 ashes | case |
| 15 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 burned | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 swung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swing | past | Hiiaka | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | skirt up | infinitive | Hiiaka not said here | against the dragons; Hiiaka nmod:poss | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | burn | past | Hiiaka not said here | dragons's bodies | to ashes | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent body=Theme |
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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