Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Owl Ghost-god, sentence 43
Great clouds of stones were hurled, and both Pii and his owl-god were grievously wounded.
Who acts: Pii · What happens: hurl, be, cloud · To what, where: Great clouds, stones
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), 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 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 clouds | amod |
| 2 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hurled | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 stones | case |
| 4 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 clouds | nmod |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hurled | aux:pass |
| 6 | hurled | hurl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wounded | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 wounded | cc |
| 9 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 Pii | det |
| 10 | Pii | Pii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 wounded | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 god | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 god | nmod:poss |
| 13 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 god | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 owl | punct |
| 15 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Pii | conj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 wounded | cop |
| 17 | grievously | grievously | ADV | _ | 18 wounded | advmod |
| 18 | wounded | wounded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hurled | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hurled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurl | past · passive | Great clouds of stones | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | both Pii and Pii's owl god | grievously, wounded property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cloud | stones | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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