Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, sentence 48

So much like life they looked that they at first supposed them merely at rest, and it was not until they had come up to them and handled them that they could detect their mistake.

Who acts: others, rest · What happens: look, suppose, not be, handle, detect, mistake · To what, where: others, rest, mistake

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 (others, rest), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 much	advmod
2	much	much	ADV	_	6 looked	advmod
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 life	case
4	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 looked	obl
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 looked	nsubj
6	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 supposed	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 supposed	nsubj:pass
9	at	at	SCONJ	_	11 supposed	mark
10	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 supposed	advmod
11	supposed	suppose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 looked	advcl
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 supposed	obj
13	merely	merely	ADV	_	15 rest	advmod
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 rest	case
15	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 supposed	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 come	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 come	cc
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 come	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 come	cop
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 come	advmod
21	until	until	SCONJ	_	24 come	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 come	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 come	aux
24	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 looked	conj
25	up	up	ADV	_	27 them	advmod
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 them	case
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 come	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 handled	cc
29	handled	handle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 looked	conj
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 handled	obj
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 detect	mark
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 detect	nsubj
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 detect	aux
34	detect	detect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 handled	advcl
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 mistake	nmod:poss
36	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 detect	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	others = other				like life	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	suppose	participle · passive		others = other		rest	noses = nose obj; first property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme they=Attribute
3	not is	past · perfect	rest		others = other		come property	tree rules
4	handle	past	others = other not said here	others = other				vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	detect	could	others = other	others's mistake				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer mistake=Stimulus
6	mistake		others = other					nom mistake «act intransitive»: 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 48

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, sentence 48