Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 35
Even Na-ihe, her husband, had not been able to free himself from superstitious fears.
What happens: not be
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: 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 2 Na | advmod |
| 2 | Na | Na | ADP | _ | 4 ihe | case |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 ihe | punct |
| 4 | ihe | ihe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 able | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 husband | punct |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 husband | nmod:poss |
| 7 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ihe | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ihe | punct |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 able | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 able | advmod |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 able | cop |
| 12 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 free | mark |
| 14 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 able | xcomp |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 free | obl |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 fears | case |
| 17 | superstitious | superstitious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 fears | amod |
| 18 | fears | fear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 free | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past · perfect | na ihe and Kapiolani's husband; able, free 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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