Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 64
The gnomes and dragons of valley and forest tried to destroy her.
Who acts: gnomes · What happens: try, destroy · To what, where: Valley
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 (gnomes), 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 gnomes | det |
| 2 | gnomes | gnome | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 tried | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 dragons | cc |
| 4 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 gnomes | conj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 valley | case |
| 6 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gnomes | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 forest | cc |
| 8 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 valley | conj |
| 9 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 destroy | mark |
| 11 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 tried | xcomp |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 destroy | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | the gnomes of valley and forest and dragons | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | destroy not said to happen | to-infinitive | the gnomes of valley and forest and dragons not said here | Valley | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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