Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, sentence 14
From this method of forcing unexpected battle came the Hawaiian saying, “The spear seeks Waimea like the wind.”
Who acts: Hawaiian saying, spear · What happens: force, come, seek · To what, where: unexpected battle, method, Waimea · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Hawaiian saying, spear), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 method | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 method | det |
| 3 | method | method | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 4 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 5 forcing | mark |
| 5 | forcing | force | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 came | advcl |
| 6 | unexpected | unexpected | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 battle | amod |
| 7 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 forcing | obj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 saying | det |
| 10 | Hawaiian | hawaiian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 saying | amod |
| 11 | saying | saying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 seeks | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 seeks | punct |
| 14 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 spear | det |
| 15 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 seeks | nsubj |
| 16 | seeks | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | parataxis |
| 17 | Waimea | Waimea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 seeks | obj |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 wind | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 wind | det |
| 20 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 seeks | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 seeks | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 seeks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | force | gerund | the Hawaiian saying not said here | unexpected battle | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the Hawaiian saying | this method | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | seek in a quote | present | the spear | Waimea | like the wind | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent waimea=Theme |
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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