Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons, sentence 26
He watched the paths through the forest, hoping to catch strangers, robbing them and sometimes devouring them.
Who acts: man · What happens: watch, hope, catch, rob, devour · To what, where: paths, forest, strangers
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 watched | nsubj |
| 2 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 paths | det |
| 4 | paths | path | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 watched | obj |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 forest | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 forest | det |
| 7 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 watched | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hoping | punct |
| 9 | hoping | hope | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 watched | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 catch | mark |
| 11 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 hoping | xcomp |
| 12 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 catch | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 robbing | punct |
| 14 | robbing | rob | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 hoping | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 robbing | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 devouring | cc |
| 17 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 18 devouring | advmod |
| 18 | devouring | devour | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 robbing | conj |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 devouring | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 watched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past | man | the paths | the forest | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Theme | |||
| 2 | hope | gerund | man not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | catch not said to happen | to-infinitive | man not said here | strangers | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stranger=Theme | ||||
| 4 | rob | gerund | man not said here | strangers = stranger | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Source | ||||
| 5 | devour | gerund | man not said here | strangers = stranger | sometimes property | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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