Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 17
Hiiaka said, “Yes, they are dragon-gods, but when I attack them they will die.”
Who acts: Hiiaka, people · What happens: say, be, attack, die · To what, where: dragon gods, people · Speech: someone speaks here
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, people), 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 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gods | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 gods | punct |
| 5 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 11 gods | discourse |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Yes | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gods | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 gods | cop |
| 9 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gods | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 dragon | punct |
| 11 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 said | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 die | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 die | cc |
| 14 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 16 attack | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 attack | nsubj |
| 16 | attack | attack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 die | advcl |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 attack | obj |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 die | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 die | aux |
| 20 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 die | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 die | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Hiiaka | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | people | dragon gods | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | attack in a quote | present | Hiiaka | people | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 4 | die in a quote | future | people | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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