Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Owl Ghost-god, sentence 21

The legends say that “this giant was twelve feet high, he had eyes as large as a man’s fist, and an immense mouth full of tusks like those of a wild hog.

Who acts: legends, giant, Pii · What happens: say, be, have · To what, where: eyes · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (legends, giant, Pii), 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 legends	det
2	legends	legend	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 say	nsubj
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 high	mark
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 high	punct
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 giant	det
7	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 high	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 high	cop
9	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 feet	nummod
10	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 high	obl:unmarked
11	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 say	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 say	advcl
15	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 had	obj
16	as	as	ADV	_	17 large	advmod
17	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 had	xcomp
18	as	as	ADP	_	22 fist	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 man	det
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fist	nmod:poss
21	’s	's	PART	_	20 man	case
22	fist	fist	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 large	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 mouth	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 mouth	cc
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 mouth	det
26	immense	immense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 mouth	amod
27	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obl
28	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 mouth	amod
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 tusks	case
30	tusks	tusk	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 full	obl
31	like	like	ADP	_	32 those	case
32	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	30 tusks	nmod
33	of	of	ADP	_	36 hog	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 hog	det
35	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 hog	amod
36	hog	hog	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 those	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the legends			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	past	this giant		twelve feet obl:unmarked; high property	tree rules
3	have in a quote	past	Pii	eyes	a immense mouth obl; large property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=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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🌲 Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Owl Ghost-god, sentence 21

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Owl Ghost-god, sentence 21