Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 128
The roots twisted around the dragons, entangling their feet and tails, and scratching eyes and faces.
Who acts: roots · What happens: twist, entangle, scratch · To what, where: feet, eyes
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pili and Noho. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (roots), 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 roots | det |
| 2 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 twisted | nsubj |
| 3 | twisted | twist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | around | around | ADP | _ | 6 dragons | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dragons | det |
| 6 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 twisted | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 entangling | punct |
| 8 | entangling | entangle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 twisted | advcl |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 feet | nmod:poss |
| 10 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 entangling | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 tails | cc |
| 12 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 feet | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 scratching | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 scratching | cc |
| 15 | scratching | scratch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 entangling | conj |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 scratching | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 faces | cc |
| 18 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 eyes | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 twisted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | twist | past | the roots | around the dragons | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme around dragon=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | entangle | gerund | the roots not said here | dragons's feet and tails | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient | ||||
| 3 | scratch | gerund | the roots not said here | eyes and faces | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=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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