Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 214
His spirit leaped from the body into some clumps of trees and ferns not far away.
Who acts: spirit · What happens: leap · To what, where: body
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 (spirit), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 spirit | nmod:poss |
| 2 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leaped | nsubj |
| 3 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 body | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 body | det |
| 6 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leaped | obl |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 clumps | case |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 clumps | det |
| 9 | clumps | clump | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 leaped | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 trees | case |
| 11 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 clumps | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 ferns | cc |
| 13 | ferns | fern | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 clumps | conj |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 far | advmod |
| 15 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 away | advmod |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 leaped | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 leaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leap | participle | arm's spirit | the body | into some clumps of trees and ferns; away property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into clump=Destination |
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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