Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Destruction of Kamehameha’s Fish-ponds, sentence 20
After she had destroyed the breadfruit grove, she went in her river of fire down to the seashore to take Kamehameha’s fish-ponds.
Who acts: Pele · What happens: destroy, go, take · To what, where: breadfruit grove, river, fish ponds
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Destruction of Kamehameha’s Fish-ponds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pele), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 destroyed | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 destroyed | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 destroyed | aux |
| 4 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 went | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 grove | det |
| 6 | breadfruit | breadfruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 grove | compound |
| 7 | grove | grove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 destroyed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 destroyed | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 river | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 river | nmod:poss |
| 13 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 fire | case |
| 15 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 river | nmod |
| 16 | down | down | ADV | _ | 19 seashore | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 seashore | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 seashore | det |
| 19 | seashore | seashore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 take | mark |
| 21 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 seashore | acl |
| 22 | Kamehameha | Kamehameha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 ponds | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 Kamehameha | case |
| 24 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 ponds | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 fish | punct |
| 26 | ponds | pond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 take | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | destroy | past · perfect | Pele | the breadfruit grove | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grove=Patient | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Pele | Pele's river of fire | to the seashore | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to seashore=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | take | to-infinitive | Pele not said here | Kamehameha's fish ponds | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pond=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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