Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka Catching a Ghost, sentence 49
It tried to come out as fast as Hiiaka pushed it in.
Who acts: foot, Hiiaka · What happens: try, come out, push in · To what, where: foot
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hiiaka Catching a Ghost. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foot, Hiiaka), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 tried | nsubj |
| 2 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 come | mark |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tried | xcomp |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 come | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 fast | advmod |
| 7 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 come | advmod |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 pushed | mark |
| 9 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 pushed | nsubj |
| 10 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fast | advcl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 pushed | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 pushed | compound:prt |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | foot | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | come out not said to happen | to-infinitive | foot not said here | fast, out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | push in | past | Hiiaka | foot | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «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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