Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, sentence 43
Some few persons of the forward company were burned to death by the sand and cinders and others were seriously injured.
Who acts: sand · What happens: burn, injure · To what, where: few persons, cinders
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sand), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 persons | det |
| 2 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 persons | amod |
| 3 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 burned | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 company | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 company | det |
| 6 | forward | forward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 company | amod |
| 7 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 persons | nmod |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 burned | aux:pass |
| 9 | burned | burn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 death | case |
| 11 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 burned | obl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 sand | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sand | det |
| 14 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 burned | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 injured | cc |
| 16 | cinders | cinder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 injured | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 others | cc |
| 18 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 cinders | conj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 injured | aux:pass |
| 20 | seriously | seriously | ADV | _ | 21 injured | advmod |
| 21 | injured | injure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 burned | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 burned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | past · passive | the sand | some few persons of the forward company | to death | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | injure | past · passive | cinders and others | seriously property | tree rules |
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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