Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 14
The dragons became angry and thrashed the water into whirlpools, trying to catch the travellers and pull them into the river.
Who acts: dragons · What happens: become, thrash, try, catch, pull · To what, where: water, whirlpools, travellers, dragons, river
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 (dragons), 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 dragons | det |
| 2 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 became | nsubj |
| 3 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 became | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 thrashed | cc |
| 6 | thrashed | thrash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 became | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 water | det |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thrashed | obj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 whirlpools | case |
| 10 | whirlpools | whirlpool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 thrashed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 trying | punct |
| 12 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 thrashed | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 catch | mark |
| 14 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 trying | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 travellers | det |
| 16 | travellers | traveller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 catch | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 pull | cc |
| 18 | pull | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 catch | conj |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 pull | obj |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 river | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 river | det |
| 22 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pull | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the dragons | angry property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | thrash | past | the dragons not said here | the water | into whirlpools result | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent water=Patient into whirlpool=Result | |||
| 3 | try | gerund | the dragons not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | catch not said to happen | to-infinitive | the dragons not said here | the travellers | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent traveller=Theme | ||||
| 5 | pull | present | the dragons not said here | dragons = dragon | the river | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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