Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 216
This could not harm Hiiaka, for she was at home in the worst violence of volcanic flames, but it meant death to Lohiau.
Who acts: This, Hiiaka, violence · What happens: not harm, be, mean · To what, where: Hiiaka, worst violence, death, Lohiau
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 (This, Hiiaka, violence), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 harm | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 harm | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 harm | advmod |
| 4 | harm | harm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 harm | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 home | punct |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 home | case |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 home | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 home | cop |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 home | case |
| 11 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Hiiaka | appos |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 violence | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 violence | det |
| 14 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 violence | amod |
| 15 | violence | violence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 home | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 flames | case |
| 17 | volcanic | volcanic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 flames | amod |
| 18 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 violence | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 meant | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 meant | cc |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 meant | nsubj |
| 22 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Hiiaka | parataxis |
| 23 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 meant | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 Lohiau | case |
| 25 | Lohiau | Lohiau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 meant | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 harm | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not harm | could | This | Hiiaka | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hiiaka=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Hiiaka | the worst violence of volcanic flames | for home | tree rules | |||
| 3 | mean | past | violence | death | Lohiau | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot death=Theme to lohiau=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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