Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Destruction of Kamehameha’s Fish-ponds, sentence 26
There were no priests who could stop this a-a eruption by their priestly skill.
Who acts: priests · What happens: be, stop · To what, where: this
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 (priests), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 priests | det |
| 4 | priests | priest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 stop | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 stop | aux |
| 7 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 priests | acl:relcl |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 stop | obj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 eruption | det |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 eruption | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 eruption | det |
| 12 | eruption | eruption | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stop | obj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 skill | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 skill | nmod:poss |
| 15 | priestly | priestly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 skill | amod |
| 16 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stop | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | no priests | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stop | could | no priests | this | by priests's priestly skill; a eruption obj | tree rules |
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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