Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 25
He ran down to meet her and threw dust all over them, then fled inland to the mountains.
Who acts: Mahiki · What happens: run down, meet, throw, flee · To what, where: Hiiaka, dust, mountains
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 ran | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 meet | mark |
| 5 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 ran | advcl |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 meet | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 threw | cc |
| 8 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 9 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 threw | obj |
| 10 | all | all | ADV | _ | 12 them | advmod |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 threw | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fled | punct |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 fled | advmod |
| 15 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 16 | inland | inland | ADV | _ | 15 fled | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 mountains | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 mountains | det |
| 19 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 fled | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run down | past | Mahiki | down property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | meet | to-infinitive | Mahiki not said here | Hiiaka | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | throw | past | Mahiki not said here | dust | over friends = friend | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent dust=Theme over they=Destination | |||
| 4 | flee | past | Mahiki not said here | the mountains | then | inland property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mountain=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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