Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 59
The slaughter of the reptile horde was quickly accomplished and Hiiaka soon saw the body of her enemy the dragon-god trampled underfoot.
Who acts: Hiiaka, dragon god · What happens: accomplish, see, trample, slaughter · To what, where: slaughter, body, underfoot, reptile horde
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, dragon god), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 slaughter | det |
| 2 | slaughter | slaughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 accomplished | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 horde | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 horde | det |
| 5 | reptile | reptile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 horde | compound |
| 6 | horde | horde | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 slaughter | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 accomplished | aux:pass |
| 8 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 9 accomplished | advmod |
| 9 | accomplished | accomplish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 saw | cc |
| 11 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 saw | advmod |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 accomplished | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 body | det |
| 15 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 saw | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 enemy | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 enemy | nmod:poss |
| 18 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 body | nmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 god | det |
| 20 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 god | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 dragon | punct |
| 22 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 enemy | appos |
| 23 | trampled | trample | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 god | acl |
| 24 | underfoot | underfoot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 trampled | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 accomplished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accomplish | past · passive | the slaughter of the reptile horde | quickly property | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Hiiaka | the body of Hiiaka's enemy | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer body=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | trample | participle | the dragon god not said here | underfoot | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | slaughter | the reptile horde | nom slaughter «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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