Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, sentence 15
Keoua was defeated and driven through forests along the eastern side of Mauna Kea (The white mountain) to Hilo.
What happens: defeat, drive · To what, where: Keoua, forests
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: 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 | Keoua | Keoua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 defeated | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 defeated | aux:pass |
| 3 | defeated | defeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 driven | cc |
| 5 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 defeated | conj |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 forests | case |
| 7 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 driven | obl |
| 8 | along | along | ADP | _ | 11 side | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 side | det |
| 10 | eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 side | amod |
| 11 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 driven | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Kea | case |
| 13 | Mauna | Mauna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Kea | compound |
| 14 | Kea | Kea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 side | nmod |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 mountain | punct |
| 16 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 mountain | det |
| 17 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 mountain | amod |
| 18 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Kea | appos |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 mountain | punct |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 Hilo | case |
| 21 | Hilo | Hilo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 mountain | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 defeated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | defeat | past · passive | Keoua | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | drive | participle | forests | along the eastern side of Mauna Kea | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through forest=Trajectory |
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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