Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 57
When the battle seemed to be going against her, suddenly the Ho-ai-ku men and the Ho-ai-ka women, the destructive gnomes from the crater, broke in a storm upon Moo-lau and his demons.
Who acts: battle · What happens: seem, go, break · To what, where: Ho ku men, storm
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 (battle), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 seemed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 battle | det |
| 3 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seemed | nsubj |
| 4 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 broke | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 going | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 going | aux |
| 7 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 seemed | xcomp |
| 8 | against | against | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 going | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 men | punct |
| 11 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 18 men | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 men | det |
| 13 | Ho | Ho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 men | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Ho | punct |
| 15 | ai | ai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ku | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 ai | punct |
| 17 | ku | ku | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 men | compound |
| 18 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 going | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 women | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 women | det |
| 21 | Ho | Ho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 women | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 Ho | punct |
| 23 | ai | ai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 women | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 ka | punct |
| 25 | ka | ka | X | Foreign=Yes | 23 ai | conj |
| 26 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 men | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 gnomes | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 gnomes | det |
| 29 | destructive | destructive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 gnomes | amod |
| 30 | gnomes | gnome | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 men | conj |
| 31 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 crater | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 crater | det |
| 33 | crater | crater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 gnomes | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 broke | punct |
| 35 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 storm | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 storm | det |
| 38 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 broke | obl |
| 39 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 42 lau | case |
| 40 | Moo | moo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 lau | compound |
| 41 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 Moo | punct |
| 42 | lau | lau | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 storm | nmod |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 demons | cc |
| 44 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 demons | nmod:poss |
| 45 | demons | demon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 lau | conj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 35 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | the battle | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive · progressive | the battle not said here | the Ho ku men and the Ho ai women and the destructive gnomes from the crater | against Hiiaka | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme against she=Location | |||
| 3 | break | past | a storm upon Moo lau and LAU's demons | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in storm=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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