Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, sentence 22
A native writer, probably Kamakau, in the native newspaper Kuokoa, 1867, describes the destruction of the central part of this army by an awful explosion from Kilauea.
Who acts: native writer · What happens: describe, destroy · To what, where: destruction, central part
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 (native writer), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 writer | det |
| 2 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 writer | amod |
| 3 | writer | writer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 describes | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Kamakau | punct |
| 5 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 6 Kamakau | advmod |
| 6 | Kamakau | Kamakau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 writer | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 newspaper | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 newspaper | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 newspaper | det |
| 10 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 newspaper | amod |
| 11 | newspaper | newspaper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 writer | conj |
| 12 | Kuokoa | Kuokoa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 newspaper | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 1867 | punct |
| 14 | 1867 | 1867 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 Kuokoa | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 writer | punct |
| 16 | describes | describe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 destruction | det |
| 18 | destruction | destruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 describes | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 part | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 part | det |
| 21 | central | central | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 part | amod |
| 22 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 destruction | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 army | case |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 army | det |
| 25 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 part | nmod |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 explosion | case |
| 27 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 explosion | det |
| 28 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 explosion | amod |
| 29 | explosion | explosion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 describes | obl |
| 30 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 Kilauea | case |
| 31 | Kilauea | Kilauea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 explosion | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 describes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | present | a native writer and the native newspaper | the destruction of the central part of this army | by a awful explosion from Kilauea | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent destruction=Theme | |||
| 2 | destroy | the central part of this army | nom destruction «act transitive»: of=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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