Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 56
Pere leaped into the sea and fled to Va-ihi (Hawaii).
What happens: leap, flee · To what, where: sea, Va ihi
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Genealogy of the Pele Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Pere | Pere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 leaped | compound |
| 2 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 sea | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sea | det |
| 5 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 leaped | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 fled | cc |
| 7 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 leaped | conj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 ihi | case |
| 9 | Va | Va | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 ihi | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Va | punct |
| 11 | ihi | ihi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fled | obl |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 Hawaii | punct |
| 13 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 ihi | appos |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 Hawaii | punct |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 leaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leap | participle | the sea | Pere compound | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into sea=Destination | ||||
| 2 | flee | past | Va ihi | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ihi=Initial_Location |
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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