Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 228
He uttered incantations and used all his powers as a sorcerer-chief.
Who acts: lava · What happens: utter, use · To what, where: incantations, powers
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 (lava), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 uttered | nsubj |
| 2 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | incantations | incantation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 uttered | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 used | cc |
| 5 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 uttered | conj |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 powers | det:predet |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 powers | nmod:poss |
| 8 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 used | obj |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 chief | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 chief | det |
| 11 | sorcerer | sorcerer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 chief | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 sorcerer | punct |
| 13 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 used | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 uttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | utter speech: other | past | lava | incantations | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent incantation=Topic | ||||
| 2 | use | past | lava not said here | lava's powers | as a sorcerer chief | vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent power=Duration as chief=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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