Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 60
High tides and floods from the seas destroyed Pele’s home and lands.
Who acts: High tides · What happens: destroy · To what, where: home
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 (High tides), 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 | High | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 tides | amod |
| 2 | tides | tide | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 destroyed | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 floods | cc |
| 4 | floods | flood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tides | conj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 seas | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 seas | det |
| 7 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tides | nmod |
| 8 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 home | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 Pele | case |
| 11 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 destroyed | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 lands | cc |
| 13 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 home | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 destroyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | destroy | past | High tides from the seas and floods | Pele's home and lands | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Patient |
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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