Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Owl Ghost-god, sentence 35
Pii, smitten by this new danger, called for Pueo, his most mighty ghost-god.
What happens: smite, call · To what, where: Pii, new danger · 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: 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 | Pii | Pii | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 smitten | punct |
| 3 | smitten | smite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Pii | acl |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 danger | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 danger | det |
| 6 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 danger | amod |
| 7 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 smitten | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 called | punct |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 danger | acl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 Pueo | case |
| 11 | Pueo | Pueo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 called | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 god | punct |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 god | nmod:poss |
| 14 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 15 mighty | advmod |
| 15 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 god | amod |
| 16 | ghost | ghost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 god | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 ghost | punct |
| 18 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pii | appos |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pii | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smite | participle | Pii not said here | by this new danger | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | this new danger not said here | Pueo xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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