Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 61
The whirlwind was one of the earth-monsters which even the sister of the goddess of volcanoes could not destroy.
Who acts: whirlwind, sister · What happens: be, not destroy · To what, where: one, earth monsters
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 (whirlwind, sister), 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 whirlwind | det |
| 2 | whirlwind | whirlwind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 one | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 one | cop |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 monsters | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 monsters | det |
| 7 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 monsters | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 earth | punct |
| 9 | monsters | monster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 one | nmod |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 destroy | obj |
| 11 | even | even | ADV | _ | 13 sister | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sister | det |
| 13 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 destroy | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 goddess | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 goddess | det |
| 16 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sister | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 volcanoes | case |
| 18 | volcanoes | volcano | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 goddess | nmod |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 destroy | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 destroy | advmod |
| 21 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 monsters | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the whirlwind | one | of the earth monsters | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not destroy | could | the sister of the goddess of volcanoes | the earth monsters | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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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