Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 87
She looked out over the death-dealing seas into which she could not flee, and then began the dance of death.
Who acts: torrent · What happens: look out, deal, not flee, begin, dance · To what, where: dealing seas, dance, death
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hopoe, the Dancing Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (torrent), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADV | _ | 2 looked | advmod |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 seas | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 seas | det |
| 6 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dealing | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 death | punct |
| 8 | dealing | deal | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 seas | amod |
| 9 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 looked | obl |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 flee | obl |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 flee | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 flee | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 flee | advmod |
| 15 | flee | flee | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 seas | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 began | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 began | cc |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 began | advmod |
| 19 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 dance | det |
| 21 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 began | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 death | case |
| 23 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dance | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look out | past | torrent | the dealing seas | out property | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | deal | gerund | death compound | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not flee | could | torrent | the dealing seas | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into which=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | begin | past | torrent not said here | the dance of death | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | dance | death | nom dance «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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