Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 62
Many were the evil demi-gods who tried to hinder Hiiaka in her journey along the east coast of the island Hawaii.
Who acts: Many evil demi gods, Hiiaka · What happens: be, try, hinder, journey · To what, where: Many evil demi gods, Hiiaka, journey
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 (Many evil demi gods, Hiiaka), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 gods | amod |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gods | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gods | det |
| 4 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 gods | amod |
| 5 | demi | demi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gods | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 demi | punct |
| 7 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 tried | nsubj |
| 9 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gods | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 hinder | mark |
| 11 | hinder | hinder | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 tried | xcomp |
| 12 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 hinder | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 journey | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 journey | nmod:poss |
| 15 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hinder | obl |
| 16 | along | along | ADP | _ | 19 coast | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 coast | det |
| 18 | east | east | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 coast | amod |
| 19 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hinder | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 island | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 island | det |
| 22 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 coast | nmod |
| 23 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 island | appos |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 gods | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Many evil demi gods | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | try | past | the Many evil demi gods | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | hinder not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Many evil demi gods not said here | Hiiaka | Hiiaka's journey | along the east coast of the island | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer hiiaka=Eventuality | ||
| 4 | journey | Hiiaka | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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