Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 45
They became tired, very tired, and, turning away from each other, sought rest.
Who acts: blows · What happens: become, turn away, seek · To what, where: each
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 (blows), 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 became | nsubj |
| 2 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 became | xcomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 tired | punct |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 tired | advmod |
| 6 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tired | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 turning | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 turning | cc |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 turning | punct |
| 10 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 became | advcl |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 turning | advmod |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 each | case |
| 13 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 10 turning | obl |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 each | fixed |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 rest | punct |
| 16 | sought | seek | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 rest | amod |
| 17 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 turning | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | blows = blow | tired property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | turn away | gerund | blows = blow not said here | each | sought rest conj; away property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from each=Source | |||
| 3 | seek | participle | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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