Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 91
The battle was fought by the two sisters hand to hand.
Who acts: two sisters · What happens: fight, hand · To what, where: battle
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 (two sisters), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 battle | det |
| 2 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fought | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fought | aux:pass |
| 4 | fought | fight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 9 hand | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sisters | det |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 sisters | nummod |
| 8 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hand | nsubj |
| 9 | hand | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fought | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 hand | mark |
| 11 | hand | hand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 hand | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past · passive | the battle | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent | |||||
| 2 | hand | present | the two sisters | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | hand | to-infinitive | the two sisters not said here | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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