Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 105
Down he rushed to the sea, but the lava spread out on either side cutting off retreat along the beach.
Who acts: hog, lava · What happens: rush, spread out, cut off · To what, where: side, retreat
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kama-puaa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hog, lava), 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 | Down | down | ADV | _ | 3 rushed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rushed | nsubj |
| 3 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 sea | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sea | det |
| 6 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rushed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 spread | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 spread | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lava | det |
| 10 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 spread | nsubj |
| 11 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rushed | conj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 spread | compound:prt |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 side | case |
| 14 | either | either | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 side | det |
| 15 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 spread | obl |
| 16 | cutting | cut | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 spread | advcl |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 cutting | compound:prt |
| 18 | retreat | retreat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cutting | obj |
| 19 | along | along | ADP | _ | 21 beach | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 beach | det |
| 21 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cutting | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | past | hog | to the sea result; down property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to sea=Result | ||||
| 2 | spread out | past | the lava | either side | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location | ||||
| 3 | cut off | gerund | the lava not said here | retreat | along the beach | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector retreat=Eventuality |
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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