Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 22
They tried to escape, but Hiiaka struck again and again and killed them, changing the bodies into blocks of stone.
Who acts: dragons, Hiiaka · What happens: try, escape, strike, kill, change · To what, where: dragons, bodies, blocks
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, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 tried | nsubj |
| 2 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 escape | mark |
| 4 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tried | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 struck | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 struck | cc |
| 7 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 struck | nsubj |
| 8 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 tried | conj |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 struck | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 again | cc |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 again | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 killed | cc |
| 13 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 struck | conj |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 killed | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 changing | punct |
| 16 | changing | change | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 killed | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bodies | det |
| 18 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 changing | obj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 blocks | case |
| 20 | blocks | block | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 changing | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 stone | case |
| 22 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 blocks | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | dragons = dragon | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | escape not said to happen | to-infinitive | dragons = dragon not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | strike | past | Hiiaka | again; again | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | ||||
| 4 | kill | past | Hiiaka not said here | dragons = dragon | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 5 | change | gerund | Hiiaka not said here | the bodies | into blocks of stone result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent body=Patient into block=Result |
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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