Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 44
Each struck with magic force and each threw out magic strength to ward off deadly blows.
Who acts: Each · What happens: strike, throw out, ward off · To what, where: magic strength, deadly blows
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 (Each), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 struck | nsubj |
| 2 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 force | case |
| 4 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 force | amod |
| 5 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 struck | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 threw | cc |
| 7 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 threw | nsubj |
| 8 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 struck | conj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 threw | compound:prt |
| 10 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 strength | amod |
| 11 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 threw | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 ward | mark |
| 13 | ward | ward | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 threw | advcl |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 ward | compound:prt |
| 15 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 blows | amod |
| 16 | blows | blow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 ward | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | participle | Each | with magic force | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with force=Theme | ||||
| 2 | throw out | past | each | magic strength | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ward off | to-infinitive | each not said here | deadly blows | tree rules |
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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