Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Snow-goddess, sentence 70
Poliahu grasped the robe, dragging it away and carrying it with her.
Who acts: Poliahu · What happens: grasp, drag away, carry · To what, where: robe
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Snow-goddess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Poliahu), 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 | Poliahu | Poliahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 grasped | nsubj |
| 2 | grasped | grasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 robe | det |
| 4 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grasped | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 dragging | punct |
| 6 | dragging | drag | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 grasped | advcl |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 dragging | obj |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 dragging | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 carrying | cc |
| 10 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 dragging | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 carrying | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 carrying | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 grasped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grasp | past | Poliahu | the robe | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer robe=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | drag away | gerund | Poliahu not said here | robe | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | carry | gerund | Poliahu not said here | robe | with Poliahu | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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