Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 42
She struck his great body with her magic skirt in which dwelt the power of the lightning.
Who acts: Hiiaka, magic skirt · What happens: strike, dwell · To what, where: great body, power
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, magic skirt), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 struck | nsubj |
| 2 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 body | nmod:poss |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 body | amod |
| 5 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 struck | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 skirt | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 skirt | nmod:poss |
| 8 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 skirt | amod |
| 9 | skirt | skirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 struck | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 dwelt | nsubj |
| 12 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 skirt | acl:relcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 power | det |
| 14 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dwelt | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 lightning | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 lightning | det |
| 17 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 power | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past | Hiiaka | LAU's great body | with Hiiaka's magic skirt | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent body=Patient with skirt=Instrument | |||
| 2 | dwell | past | Hiiaka's magic skirt | the power of the lightning | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme power=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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