Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 65
Even birds of evil omen came into the fight against her, but she conquered and killed until the land was freed from its enemies and the people of the districts along the sea could journey in comparative safety.
Who acts: birds, Valley · What happens: come, conquer, kill, free · To what, where: fight, land, enemies
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 (birds, Valley), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 2 birds | advmod |
| 2 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 came | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 omen | case |
| 4 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 omen | amod |
| 5 | omen | omen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 birds | nmod |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 fight | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fight | det |
| 9 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 10 | against | against | ADP | _ | 11 her | case |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 fight | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 conquered | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 conquered | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 conquered | nsubj |
| 15 | conquered | conquer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | parataxis |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 killed | cc |
| 17 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 conquered | conj |
| 18 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 22 freed | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 land | det |
| 20 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 freed | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 freed | aux:pass |
| 22 | freed | free | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 killed | advcl |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 enemies | case |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 enemies | nmod:poss |
| 25 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 freed | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 people | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 people | det |
| 28 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 enemies | conj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 districts | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 districts | det |
| 31 | districts | district | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 people | nmod |
| 32 | along | along | ADP | _ | 36 journey | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 sea | det |
| 34 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 journey | nsubj |
| 35 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 journey | aux |
| 36 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 freed | obl |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 safety | case |
| 38 | comparative | comparative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 safety | amod |
| 39 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 journey | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | birds of evil omen | the fight against Valley | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into fight=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | conquer | past | Valley | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | kill | past | Valley not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | free | past · passive | the land | land's enemies and the people of the districts | along journey the sea in comparative safety | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Source |
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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