Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 106
Pele followed close behind, striving to overtake him before he could reach the water.
Who acts: Pele, hog · What happens: follow, strive, overtake, reach · To what, where: hog, water
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 (Pele, hog), 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 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 followed | nsubj |
| 2 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 behind | advmod |
| 4 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 2 followed | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 striving | punct |
| 6 | striving | strive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 followed | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 overtake | mark |
| 8 | overtake | overtake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 striving | xcomp |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 overtake | obj |
| 10 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 13 reach | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 reach | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 reach | aux |
| 13 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 overtake | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 water | det |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reach | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | Pele | behind property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | strive | gerund | Pele not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | overtake | to-infinitive | Pele not said here | hog | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | reach | could | hog | the water | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent water=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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