Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 109
Noble the Saxon who hurled at his Idol a valorous weapon in olden England!
Who acts: Noble · What happens: hurl · To what, where: valorous weapon, Idol
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Kapiolani and Pele. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Noble), 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 | Noble | Noble | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 hurled | nsubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Saxon | det |
| 3 | Saxon | Saxon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Noble | appos |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 hurled | nsubj |
| 5 | hurled | hurl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 Idol | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 Idol | nmod:poss |
| 8 | Idol | idol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hurled | obl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 weapon | det |
| 10 | valorous | valorous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 weapon | amod |
| 11 | weapon | weapon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hurled | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 England | case |
| 13 | olden | olden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 England | amod |
| 14 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 hurled | obl |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 hurled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurl | past | Noble | a valorous weapon | Noble's Idol | in olden England; who nsubj | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent weapon=Theme at idol=Destination |
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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