Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 78
Pele was broken and smashed and left for dead.
What happens: break, smash, leave · To what, where: Pele
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: 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 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 broken | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 broken | aux:pass |
| 3 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 smashed | cc |
| 5 | smashed | smash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 broken | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 left | cc |
| 7 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 broken | conj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 dead | case |
| 9 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 left | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 broken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past · passive | Pele | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | smash | participle | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | leave | participle | for dead | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for dead=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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