Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 52
Then the imprisoned winds burst forth and sped away in the desired direction.
Who acts: imprisoned winds · What happens: imprison, burst, speed away, desire · To what, where: desired direction
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Moi-keha, the Restless. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (imprisoned winds), 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 | 5 burst | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 winds | det |
| 3 | imprisoned | imprison | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 winds | amod |
| 4 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 burst | nsubj |
| 5 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 5 burst | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sped | cc |
| 8 | sped | speed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 burst | conj |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 sped | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 direction | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 direction | det |
| 12 | desired | desire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 direction | amod |
| 13 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sped | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 burst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imprison | participle | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | burst | present | the imprisoned winds | then | forth property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | speed away | past | the imprisoned winds not said here | the desired direction | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in direction=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | desire | participle | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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