Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 13
Then she taunted them as slaves, ordering them to bring vegetable food and fish.
Who acts: other · What happens: taunt, order, bring · To what, where: dragons, vegetable food
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 (other), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 taunted | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 taunted | nsubj |
| 3 | taunted | taunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 taunted | obj |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 slaves | case |
| 6 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 taunted | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ordering | punct |
| 8 | ordering | order | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 taunted | advcl |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 ordering | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 bring | mark |
| 11 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 ordering | xcomp |
| 12 | vegetable | vegetable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 food | amod |
| 13 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bring | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fish | cc |
| 15 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 food | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 taunted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | taunt | past | other | dragons = dragon | then | as slaves | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||
| 2 | order | gerund | other not said here | dragons = dragon | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | bring not said to happen | to-infinitive | other not said here | vegetable food and fish | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent food=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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