Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 129
The dragons tried to shake off the branches and roots—the leaf bodies of the wilderness, and one let go the pa-u of Hiiaka, and the other let go the neck.
Who acts: dragons, one let, other let · What happens: try, shake off, go · To what, where: branches, pa u, neck
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, one let, other let), 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 | 3 tried | nsubj |
| 3 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 shake | mark |
| 5 | shake | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tried | xcomp |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 shake | compound:prt |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 branches | det |
| 8 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 shake | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 roots | cc |
| 10 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 branches | conj |
| 11 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 bodies | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bodies | det |
| 13 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bodies | compound |
| 14 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 branches | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 wilderness | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 wilderness | det |
| 17 | wilderness | wilderness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bodies | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 go | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 go | cc |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 let | nummod |
| 21 | let | let | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 go | nsubj |
| 22 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tried | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 u | det |
| 24 | pa | pa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 u | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 pa | punct |
| 26 | u | u | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 go | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Hiiaka | case |
| 28 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 u | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 go | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 go | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 let | det |
| 32 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 let | amod |
| 33 | let | let | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 go | nsubj |
| 34 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 go | conj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 neck | det |
| 36 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 go | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | the dragons | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | shake off not said to happen | to-infinitive | the dragons not said here | the branches and roots and the leaf bodies of the wilderness | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent branch=Patient | ||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | one let | the pa u of Hiiaka | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location u=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go | infinitive | the other let | the neck | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location neck=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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