Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 26
When she struck this down into the earth it made a fire-pit.
Who acts: story, earth · What happens: strike down, make · To what, where: this, earth, fire pit
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, How Pele Came to Hawaii. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, earth), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 struck | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 struck | nsubj |
| 3 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 struck | obj |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 struck | advmod |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 earth | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 earth | det |
| 8 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 struck | obl |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 made | nsubj |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 earth | acl:relcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 pit | det |
| 12 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pit | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 fire | punct |
| 14 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike down | past | story | this | into the earth result; down property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent this=Patient into earth=Result | |||
| 2 | make | past | earth | a fire pit | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material pit=Product |
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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