Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 134
The strong winds blew and the storm poured upon her, while the dragons struck her to beat her down.
Who acts: strong winds, storm, dragons · What happens: blow, pour, strike, beat down · To what, where: storm
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 (strong winds, storm, 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 | 3 winds | det |
| 2 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 winds | amod |
| 3 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 blew | nsubj |
| 4 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 poured | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 storm | det |
| 7 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 poured | nsubj |
| 8 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 blew | conj |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 her | case |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 poured | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 struck | punct |
| 12 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 15 struck | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dragons | det |
| 14 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 struck | nsubj |
| 15 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 poured | conj |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 struck | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 beat | mark |
| 18 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 struck | advcl |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 beat | obj |
| 20 | down | down | ADP | _ | 18 beat | compound:prt |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 blew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | past | the strong winds | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | pour | past | the storm | upon omao | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | ||||
| 3 | strike | past | the dragons | storm | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent she=Instrument | ||||
| 4 | beat down | to-infinitive | the dragons not said here | storm | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location she=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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