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Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 234

She had fought against the eruption; now she caught the lava, tore it to pieces, and broke down the walls toward the innermost depths of their lava home.

Who acts: Hiiaka · What happens: fight, catch, tore, break down · To what, where: lava, death, walls

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), 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

nsubjauxcasedetoblpunctadvmodnsubjparataxisdetobjpunctconjobjcaseoblpunctccconjcompound:prtdetobjcasedetamodoblcasenmod:possnmodadvmodpunctrootShePRONhadAUXfoughtVERBagainstADPtheDETeruptionNOUN;PUNCTnowADVshePRONcaughtVERBtheDETlavaNOUN,PUNCTtoreVERBitPRONtoADPpiecesNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJbrokeVERBdownADPtheDETwallsNOUNtowardADPtheDETinnermostADJdepthsNOUNofADPtheirPRONlavaNOUNhomeADV.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 foughtnsubj
2hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 foughtaux
3foughtfightVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Partrootroot
4againstagainstADP_6 eruptioncase
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 eruptiondet
6eruptioneruptionNOUNNumber=Sing3 foughtobl
7;;PUNCT_10 caughtpunct
8nownowADVPronType=Dem10 caughtadvmod
9sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs10 caughtnsubj
10caughtcatchVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 foughtparataxis
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 lavadet
12lavalavaNOUNNumber=Sing10 caughtobj
13,,PUNCT_14 torepunct
14toretoreVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 caughtconj
15ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs14 toreobj
16totoADP_17 piecescase
17piecespieceNOUNNumber=Plur14 toreobl
18,,PUNCT_20 brokepunct
19andandCCONJ_20 brokecc
20brokebreakVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 caughtconj
21downdownADP_20 brokecompound:prt
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 wallsdet
23wallswallNOUNNumber=Plur20 brokeobj
24towardtowardADP_27 depthscase
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 depthsdet
26innermostinnermostADJDegree=Pos27 depthsamod
27depthsdepthNOUNNumber=Plur20 brokeobl
28ofofADP_30 lavacase
29theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs30 lavanmod:poss
30lavalavaNOUNNumber=Sing27 depthsnmod
31homehomeADV_30 lavaadvmod
32..PUNCT_3 foughtpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1fightpast · perfectHiiakaagainst the eruptionvn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2catchpastHiiakathe lavanowvn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lava=Theme
3torepastHiiaka not said heredeathto piecestree rules
4break downpastHiiaka not said herethe wallstoward the innermost depths of depths's lavavn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=Patient

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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