Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka and the Seacoast Kupuas, sentence 36
Whenever the girls came toward him he fled swiftly to a new place.
Who acts: girls, MAHIKI · What happens: come, flee · To what, where: new place
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, MAHIKI), 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 | Whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girls | det |
| 3 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fled | advcl |
| 5 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 fled | nsubj |
| 8 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 8 fled | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 place | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 place | det |
| 12 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 place | amod |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fled | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 fled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the girls | toward MAHIKI; whenever property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme toward he=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | flee | past | MAHIKI | a new place | swiftly property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_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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