Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kaha-wali, sentence 83
On the beach he found a canoe left by his younger brother who had just landed and hastened inland to try to save his family.
Who acts: wali, younger brother · What happens: find, leave, land, hasten, try, save · To what, where: canoe, beach, family
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 (wali, younger brother), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 beach | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 beach | det |
| 3 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 found | nsubj |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 canoe | det |
| 7 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obj |
| 8 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 canoe | acl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 brother | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 brother | nmod:poss |
| 11 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 brother | amod |
| 12 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 left | obl |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 landed | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 landed | aux |
| 15 | just | just | ADV | _ | 16 landed | advmod |
| 16 | landed | land | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 brother | acl:relcl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 hastened | cc |
| 18 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 landed | conj |
| 19 | inland | inland | ADV | _ | 18 hastened | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 try | mark |
| 21 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 hastened | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 save | mark |
| 23 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 try | xcomp |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 family | nmod:poss |
| 25 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 save | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | wali | a canoe | the beach | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent canoe=Topic | |||
| 2 | leave | participle | a canoe not said here | by wali's younger brother | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by brother=Location | ||||
| 3 | land | past · perfect | wali's younger brother | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | hasten | participle | wali's younger brother not said here | inland property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | try | to-infinitive | wali's younger brother not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | save not said to happen | to-infinitive | wali's younger brother not said here | wali's family | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=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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