Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Owl Ghost-god, sentence 20
There followed a great battle in which Pii attacked all the warriors belonging to the wounded chief.
Who acts: Pii, warriors · What happens: follow, attack, belong · To what, where: great battle, warriors
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 (Pii, warriors), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 followed | expl |
| 2 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 battle | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 battle | amod |
| 5 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 followed | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 which | case |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 attacked | obl |
| 8 | Pii | Pii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 attacked | nsubj |
| 9 | attacked | attack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 battle | acl:relcl |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 warriors | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 warriors | det |
| 12 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 attacked | obj |
| 13 | belonging | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 warriors | acl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 chief | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 chief | det |
| 16 | wounded | wounded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 chief | amod |
| 17 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 belonging | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | a great battle | there | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Theme | ||||
| 2 | attack | past | Pii | all warriors | a great battle | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warrior=Patient | |||
| 3 | belong | gerund | all warriors not said here | to the wounded chief | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=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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