Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 59
But he could not deliver Pele and Hiiaka from the wrath of their sister.
Who acts: name · What happens: not deliver · To what, where: Pele, wrath
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 (name), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 deliver | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 deliver | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 deliver | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 deliver | advmod |
| 5 | deliver | deliver | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 deliver | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Hiiaka | cc |
| 8 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Pele | conj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 wrath | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wrath | det |
| 11 | wrath | wrath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 deliver | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 sister | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 sister | nmod:poss |
| 14 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wrath | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 deliver | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not deliver | could | name | Pele and Hiiaka | the wrath of enemies's sister | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent pele=Theme from wrath=Initial_Location |
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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