Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kaha-wali, sentence 51
Together the chief and the woman dashed to the brow of the hill, threw themselves on their holuas and went headlong down the steep course.
Who acts: chief · What happens: dash, throw, go · To what, where: brow, spears, holuas
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kaha-wali. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chief), 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 | Together | together | ADV | _ | 7 dashed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 chief | det |
| 3 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dashed | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 woman | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 woman | det |
| 6 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chief | conj |
| 7 | dashed | dash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 brow | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 brow | det |
| 10 | brow | brow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dashed | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 hill | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hill | det |
| 13 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 brow | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 threw | punct |
| 15 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 dashed | parataxis |
| 16 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 threw | obj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 holuas | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 holuas | nmod:poss |
| 19 | holuas | holua | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 threw | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 went | cc |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 threw | conj |
| 22 | headlong | headlong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 went | xcomp |
| 23 | down | down | ADP | _ | 26 course | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 course | det |
| 25 | steep | steep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 course | amod |
| 26 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 headlong | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 dashed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dash | past | the chief and the woman | the brow of the hill | together property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to brow=Destination | |||
| 2 | throw | past | spears = spear | spears's holuas | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme on holua=Destination | ||||
| 3 | go | past | headlong property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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