Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 26
The priestess was quick-witted and said that truly she had done some harm, but the rum of the foreigners was far more destructive.
Who acts: priestess, rum · What happens: be, say, do · To what, where: harm · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (priestess, rum), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 priestess | det |
| 2 | priestess | priestess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 witted | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 witted | cop |
| 4 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 witted | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 quick | punct |
| 6 | witted | witted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 witted | conj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 done | mark |
| 10 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 13 done | advmod |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 done | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 done | aux |
| 13 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 said | ccomp |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 harm | det |
| 15 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 done | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 destructive | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 destructive | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 rum | det |
| 19 | rum | rum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 destructive | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 foreigners | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 foreigners | det |
| 22 | foreigners | foreigner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 rum | nmod |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 destructive | cop |
| 24 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 more | advmod |
| 25 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 26 destructive | advmod |
| 26 | destructive | destructive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 witted | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 witted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the priestess | witted property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the priestess not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do | past · perfect | priestess | some harm | truly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | is | past | the rum of the foreigners | destructive property | 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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