Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Owl Ghost-god, sentence 18
He had a wooden dagger as his only weapon, but could not get near enough to the giant to use it.
Who acts: Kau · What happens: have, not get, use · To what, where: wooden dagger, dagger
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 dagger | det |
| 4 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dagger | amod |
| 5 | dagger | dagger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 weapon | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 weapon | nmod:poss |
| 8 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 weapon | amod |
| 9 | weapon | weapon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 get | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 get | cc |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 get | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 get | advmod |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 had | conj |
| 15 | near | near | ADV | _ | 14 get | advmod |
| 16 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 15 near | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 giant | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 giant | det |
| 19 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 get | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 use | mark |
| 21 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 get | advcl |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 use | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Kau | a wooden dagger | as Kau's only weapon | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dagger=Patient | |||
| 2 | not get | could | Kau not said here | to the giant result; near property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to giant=Result | ||||
| 3 | use | to-infinitive | Kau not said here | dagger | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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