Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 134
Out of the house they rushed, fleeing back to their home in the caves.
Who acts: people · What happens: rush, flee back · To what, where: house, caves
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele’s Long Sleep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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 | Out | out | ADP | _ | 4 house | case |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 house | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 house | det |
| 4 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rushed | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 rushed | nsubj |
| 6 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fleeing | punct |
| 8 | fleeing | flee | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 rushed | advcl |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 fleeing | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 home | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 home | nmod:poss |
| 12 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fleeing | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 caves | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 caves | det |
| 15 | caves | cave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 fleeing | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | past | people | the house | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out house=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | flee back | gerund | people not said here | the caves | to people's home | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to home=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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