Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, sentence 46

‘But what was their surprise and consternation when, on coming up with their comrades of the centre party, they discovered them all to have become corpses.

Who acts: Sand · What happens: be, come up, discover, have, become, surprise · To what, where: consternation, dangers, become corpses

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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 consternation	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 consternation	cc
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 consternation	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 consternation	cop
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 surprise	nmod:poss
6	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 consternation	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 consternation	cc
8	consternation	consternation	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 discovered	obl
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 coming	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 coming	punct
11	on	on	SCONJ	_	12 coming	mark
12	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 consternation	acl
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 coming	compound:prt
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 comrades	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 comrades	nmod:poss
16	comrades	comrade	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 coming	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 party	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 party	det
19	centre	centre	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 party	compound
20	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 comrades	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 consternation	punct
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 discovered	nsubj
23	discovered	discover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 discovered	obj
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 them	nmod:unmarked
26	to	to	PART	_	27 have	mark
27	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 discovered	advcl
28	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 corpses	amod
29	corpses	corpse	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 have	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 discovered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		consternation	what nsubj; Sand's surprise nsubj	tree rules
2	come up	gerund			with Sand's comrades of the centre party	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	discover	past	Sand	dangers = danger		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
4	have	to-infinitive	Sand not said here	become corpses		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corpse=Patient
5	become	participle				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
6	surprise		Sand			nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=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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🌲 Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, sentence 46

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, sentence 46