Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Ai-laau, the Forest Eater, sentence 17
It spread over the fertile fields, and the natives feared him as the destroyer giving no thought to the final good.
Who acts: fire, natives, destroyer · What happens: spread, fear, give · To what, where: fertile fields, laau, thought, final good
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Ai-laau, the Forest Eater. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fire, natives, destroyer), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 spread | nsubj |
| 2 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 fields | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fields | det |
| 5 | fertile | fertile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fields | amod |
| 6 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 spread | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 feared | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 feared | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 natives | det |
| 10 | natives | native | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 feared | nsubj |
| 11 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 spread | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 feared | obj |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 destroyer | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 destroyer | det |
| 15 | destroyer | destroyer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 feared | obl |
| 16 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 destroyer | acl |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 thought | det |
| 18 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 giving | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 good | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 good | det |
| 21 | final | final | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 good | amod |
| 22 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 giving | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | past | fire | the fertile fields | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over field=Location | ||||
| 2 | fear | past | the natives | laau | as the destroyer | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | give | gerund | the destroyer not said here | no thought | the final good | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thought=Theme to good=Recipient |
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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