Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Owl Ghost-god, sentence 26
This she hurled so that it twisted around him and bound his arms to his sides.
Who acts: This, ikoi · What happens: hurl, twist, bind · To what, where: arms
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 (This, ikoi), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 hurled | nsubj |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hurled | nsubj |
| 3 | hurled | hurl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 7 twisted | mark |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 4 so | fixed |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 twisted | nsubj |
| 7 | twisted | twist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hurled | advcl |
| 8 | around | around | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 twisted | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bound | cc |
| 11 | bound | bind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 twisted | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 arms | nmod:poss |
| 13 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 bound | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 sides | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 sides | nmod:poss |
| 16 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 bound | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hurled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurl | past | This | wife nsubj | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | twist | past | ikoi | around Pii | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme around he=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | bind | past | ikoi not said here | Pii's arms | to Pii's sides | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient to side=Co-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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