Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 41
He coiled and twisted and swiftly whirled about, trying to knock her down, but she beat him with her powerful hands in which dwelt some of the divine power of volcanoes.
Who acts: LAU, Hiiaka, powerful hands · What happens: coil, twist, whirl, try, knock down, beat · To what, where: Hiiaka, LAU, some
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 (LAU, Hiiaka, powerful hands), 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 coiled | nsubj |
| 2 | coiled | coil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 twisted | cc |
| 4 | twisted | twist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 coiled | conj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 whirled | cc |
| 6 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 7 whirled | advmod |
| 7 | whirled | whirl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 twisted | conj |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 whirled | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 trying | punct |
| 10 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 whirled | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 knock | mark |
| 12 | knock | knock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 trying | xcomp |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 knock | obj |
| 14 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 knock | compound:prt |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 beat | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 beat | cc |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 beat | nsubj |
| 18 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 coiled | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 beat | obj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 hands | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 hands | nmod:poss |
| 22 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 hands | amod |
| 23 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 beat | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 which | case |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 dwelt | nsubj |
| 26 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 hands | acl:relcl |
| 27 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 dwelt | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 power | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 power | det |
| 30 | divine | divine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 power | amod |
| 31 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 some | nmod |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 volcanoes | case |
| 33 | volcanoes | volcano | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 power | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 coiled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | coil | past | LAU | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | twist | past | LAU not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | whirl | participle | LAU not said here | about, swiftly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | try | gerund | LAU not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | knock down not said to happen | to-infinitive | LAU not said here | Hiiaka | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 6 | beat | past | Hiiaka | LAU | with Hiiaka's powerful hands | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with hand=Instrument | |||
| 7 | dwell | past | Hiiaka's powerful hands | some of the divine power of volcanoes | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme some=Location |
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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