Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 18
The chief offered to make any bet desired that she could not injure the dragons.
Who acts: chief · What happens: offer, make, desire, not injure · To what, where: chief, bet, dragons
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 (chief), 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 chief | det |
| 2 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 desired | nsubj |
| 3 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 chief | acl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 make | mark |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 offered | advcl |
| 6 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 bet | det |
| 7 | bet | bet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 make | obj |
| 8 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 injure | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 injure | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 injure | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 injure | advmod |
| 13 | injure | injure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 desired | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 dragons | det |
| 15 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 injure | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 desired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | participle | the chief not said here | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | any bet | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bet=Product | |||||
| 3 | desire | past | the chief | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | not injure | could | chief | the dragons | tree rules |
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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