Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, sentence 44
All experienced a suffocating sensation upon the lungs and hastened on with all possible speed.
What happens: experience, suffocate, hasten on · To what, where: suffocating sensation
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: 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 experienced | advmod |
| 2 | experienced | experience | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 sensation | det |
| 4 | suffocating | suffocate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 sensation | amod |
| 5 | sensation | sensation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 experienced | obj |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 lungs | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lungs | det |
| 8 | lungs | lung | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 experienced | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 hastened | cc |
| 10 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 experienced | conj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 hastened | compound:prt |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 speed | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 speed | det |
| 14 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 speed | amod |
| 15 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hastened | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 experienced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | experience | past | a suffocating sensation | upon the lungs | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sensation=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | suffocate | gerund | vn suffocate-40.7 «NP.theme V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | hasten on | participle | with all possible speed | vn rush-53.2 «NP V PP.eventuality»: agent=Agent with speed=Eventuality |
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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