Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka and the Seacoast Kupuas, sentence 21
Two of them threw aside their tapa clothes and ran down to the beach.
Who acts: Two · What happens: throw, run down · To what, where: tapa clothes
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hiiaka and the Seacoast Kupuas. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Two), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 threw | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Two | nmod |
| 4 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 4 threw | advmod |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | tapa | tapa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 clothes | compound |
| 8 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 4 threw | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ran | cc |
| 10 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 threw | conj |
| 11 | down | down | ADV | _ | 10 ran | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 beach | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 beach | det |
| 14 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ran | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | Two of valleys | valleys's tapa clothes | aside property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme | |||
| 2 | run down | past | Two of valleys not said here | to the beach result; down property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to beach=Result |
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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