Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 60
When the god Mahiki saw that Moo-lau was slain and his army defeated he raised a great cloud of dust and fled far off around the western side of the island.
Who acts: god Mahiki, Moo lau, army · What happens: see, be, defeat, raise, flee, cloud · To what, where: great cloud, western side, dust · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (god Mahiki, Moo lau, army), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Mahiki | det |
| 3 | god | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Mahiki | compound |
| 4 | Mahiki | Mahiki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 slain | mark |
| 7 | Moo | Moo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 lau | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Moo | punct |
| 9 | lau | lau | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 slain | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 slain | cop |
| 11 | slain | slain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 saw | ccomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 defeated | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 army | nmod:poss |
| 14 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 defeated | nsubj |
| 15 | defeated | defeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 slain | conj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 raised | nsubj |
| 17 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 defeated | ccomp |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 cloud | det |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 cloud | amod |
| 20 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 raised | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 dust | case |
| 22 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cloud | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 fled | cc |
| 24 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 raised | conj |
| 25 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 off | advmod |
| 26 | off | off | ADV | _ | 24 fled | advmod |
| 27 | around | around | ADP | _ | 30 side | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 side | det |
| 29 | western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 side | amod |
| 30 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fled | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 island | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 island | det |
| 33 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 side | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the god Mahiki | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Moo lau | slain property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | defeat | past | LAU's army | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | raise | past | army | a great cloud of dust | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloud=Theme | ||||
| 5 | flee | past | army not said here | the western side of the island | off property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme around side=Initial_Location | |||
| 6 | cloud | dust | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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