Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 27
All this prepared the way for Kapiolani to attempt to break down the worship of the fire-goddess.
Who acts: this, fire goddess · What happens: prepare, attempt, break down, worship · To what, where: way, worship
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 (this, fire goddess), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 prepared | det:predet |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 prepared | nsubj |
| 3 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 way | det |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 prepared | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 Kapiolani | case |
| 7 | Kapiolani | Kapiolani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 way | nmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 attempt | mark |
| 9 | attempt | attempt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 way | acl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 break | mark |
| 11 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 attempt | xcomp |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 break | compound:prt |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 worship | det |
| 14 | worship | worship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 break | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 goddess | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 goddess | det |
| 17 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 goddess | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 fire | punct |
| 19 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 worship | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 prepared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prepare | past | this | the way | for Kapiolani | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent way=Product for kapiolani=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | attempt | to-infinitive | this not said here | the way not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | break down not said to happen | to-infinitive | this not said here | the worship of the fire goddess | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worship=Patient | ||||
| 4 | worship | the fire goddess | nom worship «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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