Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 110
Great, and greater, and greatest of women, island heroine Kapiolani Clomb the mountain, and flung the berries and dared the Goddess, and freed the people Of Hawa-i-ee!
Who acts: i · What happens: fling, dare, free, ee · To what, where: berries, Goddess, people
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 (i), 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 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 greater | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 greater | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 greater | cc |
| 4 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 greatest | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 greatest | cc |
| 7 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 greater | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 women | case |
| 9 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 greatest | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 heroine | punct |
| 11 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heroine | compound |
| 12 | heroine | heroine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 greatest | conj |
| 13 | Kapiolani | Kapiolani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 heroine | appos |
| 14 | Clomb | Clomb | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Kapiolani | flat |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 mountain | det |
| 16 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Kapiolani | appos |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 flung | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 flung | cc |
| 19 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 greater | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 berries | det |
| 21 | berries | berry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 flung | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 dared | cc |
| 23 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 flung | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Goddess | det |
| 25 | Goddess | Goddess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 dared | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 freed | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 freed | cc |
| 28 | freed | free | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 flung | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 people | det |
| 30 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 freed | obj |
| 31 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Hawa | case |
| 32 | Hawa | Hawa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 people | nmod |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 ee | punct |
| 34 | i | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 ee | nsubj |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 ee | punct |
| 36 | ee | ee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 Hawa | appos |
| 37 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 greater | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fling | past | the berries | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Theme | |||||
| 2 | dare | past | the Goddess | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goddess=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | free | past | the people of Hawa | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer people=Source | |||||
| 4 | ee | i | 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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