Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 67
She saw him swimming in the sea and, forgetting her companions, leaped in to sport with him.
Who acts: Pau, sea · What happens: see, swim, forget, leap · To what, where: sea, companions, sport
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 (Pau, sea), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | obj |
| 4 | swimming | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 saw | xcomp |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 sea | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sea | det |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 swimming | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 forgetting | cc |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 forgetting | punct |
| 10 | forgetting | forget | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 saw | conj |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 companions | nmod:poss |
| 12 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 forgetting | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 leaped | punct |
| 14 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 forgetting | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 sport | case |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 sport | case |
| 17 | sport | sport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 leaped | obl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 leaped | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Pau | sea | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | swim | gerund | sea not said here | the sea | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | forget | gerund | Pau not said here | Pau's companions | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | leap | participle | Pau not said here | sport | with sea | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sport=Trajectory |
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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