Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui Seeking Immortality, sentence 10
Then they plunge down into their heaven or their hades.
Who acts: spirits · What happens: plunge down · To what, where: heaven
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Maui Seeking Immortality. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spirits), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 plunge | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 plunge | nsubj |
| 3 | plunge | plunge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 plunge | advmod |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 heaven | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 heaven | nmod:poss |
| 7 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 plunge | obl |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 hades | cc |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hades | nmod:poss |
| 10 | hades | hade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 heaven | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 plunge | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plunge down | present | spirits = spirit | spirits's heaven or spirits's hades | then | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into heaven=Initial_Location |
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 Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66357 (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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