Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 83
Pele was not able to strike her Paoa down into a mountain side and dig deep for the foundations of her home.
Who acts: Pele · What happens: not be, strike down, dig · To what, where: Paoa, mountain side
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 (Pele), 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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 able | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 able | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 able | advmod |
| 4 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 strike | mark |
| 6 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 able | xcomp |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 Paoa | nmod:poss |
| 8 | Paoa | Paoa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 strike | obj |
| 9 | down | down | ADV | _ | 6 strike | advmod |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 side | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 side | det |
| 12 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 side | compound |
| 13 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 strike | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 dig | cc |
| 15 | dig | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 able | conj |
| 16 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 dig | xcomp |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 foundations | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 foundations | det |
| 19 | foundations | foundation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 dig | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 home | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 home | nmod:poss |
| 22 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 foundations | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | Pele | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | strike down | to-infinitive | Pele not said here | Pele's Paoa | into a mountain side result; down property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent paoa=Patient into side=Result | |||
| 3 | dig | present | Pele not said here | for the foundations of Pele's home; deep property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for foundation=Theme |
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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