Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 76
She slew the guardians of the cave, carried the body to a house where she used powerful chants for restoration.
Who acts: substance · What happens: slay, carry, use · To what, where: guardians, body, house, powerful chants
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 (substance), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 slew | nsubj |
| 2 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 guardians | det |
| 4 | guardians | guardian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 slew | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 cave | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cave | det |
| 7 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 guardians | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 carried | punct |
| 9 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 slew | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 body | det |
| 11 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carried | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 house | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 house | det |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carried | obl |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 used | advmod |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 used | nsubj |
| 17 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 house | acl:relcl |
| 18 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 chants | amod |
| 19 | chants | chant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 used | obj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 restoration | case |
| 21 | restoration | restoration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 chants | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 slew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slay | past | substance | the guardians of the cave | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guardian=Patient | ||||
| 2 | carry | past | substance not said here | the body | a house | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent body=Theme to house=Destination | |||
| 3 | use | past | substance | powerful chants | for restoration | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent chant=Theme for restoration=Eventuality |
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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