Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, sentence 12
He attacked Hilo, killed his uncle and ravaged Kamehameha’s lands along the northeastern side of the island.
Who acts: Keoua · What happens: attack, kill, ravage · To what, where: Hilo, uncle, lands
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 (Keoua), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 attacked | nsubj |
| 2 | attacked | attack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Hilo | Hilo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 attacked | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 killed | punct |
| 5 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 attacked | parataxis |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 7 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 killed | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ravaged | cc |
| 9 | ravaged | ravage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 killed | conj |
| 10 | Kamehameha | Kamehameha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 lands | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 Kamehameha | case |
| 12 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 ravaged | obj |
| 13 | along | along | ADP | _ | 16 side | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 side | det |
| 15 | northeastern | northeastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 side | amod |
| 16 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ravaged | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 island | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 island | det |
| 19 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 side | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 attacked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attack | past | Keoua | Hilo | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hilo=Patient | ||||
| 2 | kill | past | Keoua's uncle | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent uncle=Theme | |||||
| 3 | ravage | past | Kamehameha's lands | along the northeastern side of the island | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=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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