Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka and the Seacoast Kupuas, sentence 26
The girls fled inland to higher ground, but Hiiaka stood at the edge of the sea.
Who acts: girls, Hiiaka · What happens: flee, stand · To what, where: higher ground, edge
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 (girls, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 girls | det |
| 2 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fled | nsubj |
| 3 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | inland | inland | ADV | _ | 3 fled | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 ground | case |
| 6 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 ground | amod |
| 7 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fled | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stood | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 stood | cc |
| 10 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 stood | nsubj |
| 11 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fled | conj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 edge | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 edge | det |
| 14 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stood | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 sea | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sea | det |
| 17 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 edge | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flee | past | the girls | higher ground | inland property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ground=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | stand | past | Hiiaka | the edge of the sea | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at edge=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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