Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 89
Great is the magic power and strength of the two dragons and I am not a man, and may not win the victory.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, not be, not win · To what, where: Great magic power, man, victory
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 (I), 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 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 power | amod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 power | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 power | det |
| 4 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 power | amod |
| 5 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 strength | cc |
| 7 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 power | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 dragons | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dragons | det |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 dragons | nummod |
| 11 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 strength | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 man | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 man | nsubj |
| 14 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 man | cop |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 man | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 power | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 win | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 win | cc |
| 20 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 win | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 win | advmod |
| 22 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 power | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 victory | det |
| 24 | victory | victory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 win | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 power | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Great magic power and strength of the two dragons and a man | strength of the two dragons conj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is a | present | I | a man | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not win | may | the victory | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent victory=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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