Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, sentence 1

Almost exactly thirty-four years before Kapiolani defied the worship of the fire-goddess Pele, Keoua, a high chief, lost a large part of his army near the volcano Kilauea.

Who acts: Kapiolani, fire goddess · What happens: defy, lose, worship · To what, where: worship, large part, volcano

This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kapiolani, fire goddess), 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	Almost	almost	ADV	_	2 exactly	advmod
2	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	5 four	advmod
3	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 four	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 thirty	punct
5	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 defied	obl:unmarked
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	9 defied	mark
8	Kapiolani	Kapiolani	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 defied	nsubj
9	defied	defy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 worship	det
11	worship	worship	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 defied	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	16 goddess	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 goddess	det
14	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 goddess	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 fire	punct
16	goddess	goddess	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 worship	nmod
17	Pele	Pele	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 goddess	appos
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Keoua	punct
19	Keoua	Keoua	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Pele	flat
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 chief	punct
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 chief	det
22	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 chief	amod
23	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Pele	appos
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 lost	punct
25	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 defied	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 part	det
27	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 part	amod
28	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lost	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 army	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 army	nmod:poss
31	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 part	nmod
32	near	near	ADP	_	34 volcano	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 volcano	det
34	volcano	volcano	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lost	obl
35	Kilauea	Kilauea	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 volcano	appos
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 defied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	defy	past	Kapiolani	the worship of the fire goddess		year	tree rules
2	lose	past	Kapiolani not said here	a large part of Kapiolani's army	the volcano		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Eventuality
3	worship		the fire goddess				nom worship «act intransitive»: of=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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🌲 Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, sentence 1

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Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, sentence 1