Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, sentence 49
Of the whole party, including women and children, not one of them survived to relate the catastrophe that had befallen their comrades.
Who acts: women, catastrophe · What happens: survive, relate, befall · To what, where: catastrophe, comrades
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 (women, catastrophe), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 4 party | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 party | det |
| 3 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 party | amod |
| 4 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 survived | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 party | punct |
| 6 | including | including | ADP | _ | 7 women | case |
| 7 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 survived | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 children | cc |
| 9 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 women | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 one | punct |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 one | advmod |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 women | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 one | nmod |
| 15 | survived | survive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 relate | mark |
| 17 | relate | relate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 survived | xcomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 catastrophe | det |
| 19 | catastrophe | catastrophe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 relate | obj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 befallen | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 befallen | aux |
| 22 | befallen | befall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 catastrophe | acl:relcl |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 comrades | nmod:poss |
| 24 | comrades | comrade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 befallen | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 survived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | survive | past | women and children | of the whole party | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | relate | to-infinitive | women and children not said here | the catastrophe | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent catastrophe=Theme | ||||
| 3 | befall | past · perfect | the catastrophe | women's comrades | 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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