Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 43
To her surprise he brushed the clouds away, with a few words checked the eruption, and stood before them unharmed.
Who acts: stranger, few words, Pele · What happens: brush away, check, stand, surprise · To what, where: clouds, surprise, eruption
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 (stranger, few words, Pele), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 surprise | case |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 surprise | nmod:poss |
| 3 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brushed | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 brushed | nsubj |
| 5 | brushed | brush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 clouds | det |
| 7 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 brushed | obj |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 brushed | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 checked | punct |
| 10 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 14 checked | mark |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 words | det |
| 12 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 words | amod |
| 13 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 checked | nsubj |
| 14 | checked | check | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 brushed | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 eruption | det |
| 16 | eruption | eruption | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 checked | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 stood | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 stood | cc |
| 19 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 brushed | conj |
| 20 | before | before | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 stood | obl |
| 22 | unharmed | unharmed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 stood | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 brushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | brush away | past | stranger | the clouds | Pele's surprise | away property | vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent cloud=Theme to surprise=Destination | ||
| 2 | check | past | a few words | the eruption | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eruption=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | stranger not said here | before clouds = cloud | unharmed property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before they=Location | |||
| 4 | surprise | Pele | nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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