Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Chiefs of Puna, sentence 75
If false, he would return and kill the prophet for speaking in contempt of his beautiful land.
Who acts: prophet · What happens: return, kill, speak · To what, where: prophet, contempt · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Chiefs of Puna. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prophet), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 2 false | mark |
| 2 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 return | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 false | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 return | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 return | aux |
| 6 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 kill | cc |
| 8 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 return | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 prophet | det |
| 10 | prophet | prophet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kill | obj |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 speaking | mark |
| 12 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 kill | advcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 contempt | case |
| 14 | contempt | contempt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 speaking | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 land | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 land | nmod:poss |
| 17 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 land | amod |
| 18 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 contempt | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 return | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | would | prophet | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | kill | infinitive | prophet not said here | the prophet | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prophet=Theme | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | gerund | prophet not said here | contempt of prophet's beautiful land | vn talk-37.5 «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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