Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 35
Then began one of the great legendary battles of ancient Hawaiian folk-lore.
What happens: begin, battle · To what, where: one, ancient Hawaiian folk lore
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: 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 began | advmod |
| 2 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 began | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 battles | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 battles | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 battles | amod |
| 7 | legendary | legendary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 battles | amod |
| 8 | battles | battle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 one | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 lore | case |
| 10 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 lore | amod |
| 11 | Hawaiian | hawaiian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 lore | amod |
| 12 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lore | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 folk | punct |
| 14 | lore | lore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 battles | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | one of the great legendary battles of ancient Hawaiian folk lore | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | battle | ancient Hawaiian folk lore | nom battle «act transitive»: of=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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