Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Owl Ghost-god, sentence 14
As he entered the door he received a heavy blow which smashed the bones of one shoulder and laid him prostrate.
Who acts: Kau, heavy blow · What happens: enter, receive, smash, lay · To what, where: door, heavy blow, bones, Kau
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Owl Ghost-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kau, heavy blow), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 entered | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 entered | nsubj |
| 3 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 received | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 door | det |
| 5 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 received | nsubj |
| 7 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 blow | det |
| 9 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 blow | amod |
| 10 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 received | obj |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 smashed | nsubj |
| 12 | smashed | smash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 blow | acl:relcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bones | det |
| 14 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 smashed | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 shoulder | case |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 shoulder | nummod |
| 17 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bones | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 laid | cc |
| 19 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 smashed | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 laid | obj |
| 21 | prostrate | prostrate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 laid | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | Kau | the door | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme door=Destination | ||||
| 2 | receive | past | Kau | a heavy blow | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Theme | ||||
| 3 | smash | past | a heavy blow | the bones of one shoulder | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lay | past | a heavy blow not said here | Kau | prostrate property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Result |
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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