Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, sentence 50
The only living being they found was a solitary hog, in company with one of the families which had been so suddenly bereft of life.
Who acts: women, only living, families · What happens: be · To what, where: only living, solitary hog
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, only living, families), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 living | det |
| 2 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 living | amod |
| 3 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hog | nsubj |
| 4 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 found | cop |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 found | nsubj |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 living | acl:relcl |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 hog | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 hog | det |
| 9 | solitary | solitary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hog | amod |
| 10 | hog | hog | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 company | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 company | case |
| 13 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hog | appos |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 one | case |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 company | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 families | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 families | det |
| 18 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 one | nmod |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 bereft | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 bereft | aux |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 bereft | cop |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 bereft | advmod |
| 23 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 24 bereft | advmod |
| 24 | bereft | bereft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 families | acl:relcl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 life | case |
| 26 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bereft | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 hog | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | women = woman | the only living not said here | find property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | past | the only living | a solitary hog | company with one of the families appos | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | past · perfect | the families | of life; bereft, suddenly 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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