Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Owl Ghost-god, sentence 3
It did not become an open conflict immediately, but Koa was filled with such deep hatred that he was ready to employ any means to destroy his enemy.
Who acts: quarrel, land, any · What happens: not become, fill, be, employ, mean, destroy · To what, where: open conflict, Koa, such deep hatred, enemy
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 (quarrel, land, any), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 become | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 become | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 become | advmod |
| 4 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 conflict | det |
| 6 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 conflict | amod |
| 7 | conflict | conflict | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 become | xcomp |
| 8 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 4 become | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 filled | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 filled | cc |
| 11 | Koa | Koa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 filled | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 filled | aux:pass |
| 13 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 become | conj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 hatred | case |
| 15 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hatred | amod |
| 16 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hatred | amod |
| 17 | hatred | hatred | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 filled | obl |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 ready | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 ready | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 ready | cop |
| 21 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hatred | acl:relcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 employ | mark |
| 23 | employ | employ | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 ready | xcomp |
| 24 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 means | nsubj |
| 25 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 employ | ccomp |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 destroy | mark |
| 27 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 means | xcomp |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 enemy | nmod:poss |
| 29 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 destroy | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 become | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not become | past · do-support | quarrel | a open conflict | immediately property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | fill | past · passive | Koa | with such deep hatred | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with hatred=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | is | past | land | such deep hatred not said here | ready property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | employ | to-infinitive | land not said here | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | mean | present | any | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | destroy not said to happen | to-infinitive | any not said here | land's enemy | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enemy=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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