Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Destruction of Kamehameha’s Fish-ponds, sentence 32
I have sent for you because I am much distressed by the destruction of the land and the ponds by the sea.
Who acts: I, destruction · What happens: send, distress, destroy · To what, where: I, land
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 (I, destruction), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | aux |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 you | case |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 sent | obl |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 distressed | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 distressed | nsubj |
| 8 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 distressed | aux:pass |
| 9 | much | much | ADV | _ | 10 distressed | advmod |
| 10 | distressed | distress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sent | advcl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 destruction | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 destruction | det |
| 13 | destruction | destruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 distressed | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 land | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 land | det |
| 16 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 destruction | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 ponds | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ponds | det |
| 19 | ponds | pond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 land | conj |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 sea | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sea | det |
| 22 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 distressed | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | present · perfect | I | for you | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | distress | present · passive | the destruction of the land and the ponds | I | by the sea | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | destroy | the land and the ponds | 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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