Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 124
One tried to pull off the pa-u and tear it to pieces.
Who acts: One · What happens: try, pull off, tear · To what, where: pa u, u
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), 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 | 2 tried | nsubj |
| 2 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 pull | mark |
| 4 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tried | xcomp |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 pull | compound:prt |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 u | det |
| 7 | pa | pa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 u | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 pa | punct |
| 9 | u | u | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pull | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 tear | cc |
| 11 | tear | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 pull | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 tear | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 pieces | case |
| 14 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 tear | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | One | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | pull off not said to happen | to-infinitive | One not said here | the pa u | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent u=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | tear | infinitive | One not said here | u | to pieces result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Patient to piece=Result |
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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