Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, sentence 52
“Keoua and his followers, of whom the narrator of this scene were a part, retreated in the direction they had come.
Who acts: Keoua, followers · What happens: be, retreat, come · To what, where: part, direction
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 (Keoua, followers), 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 | _ | 2 Keoua | punct |
| 2 | Keoua | Keoua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 part | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 followers | cc |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 followers | nmod:poss |
| 5 | followers | follower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Keoua | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 narrator | punct |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 whom | case |
| 8 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 narrator | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 narrator | det |
| 10 | narrator | narrator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Keoua | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 scene | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 scene | det |
| 13 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 narrator | nmod |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 part | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 part | det |
| 16 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 retreated | punct |
| 18 | retreated | retreat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 part | acl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 direction | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 direction | det |
| 21 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 retreated | obl |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 come | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 come | aux |
| 24 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 direction | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 part | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | Keoua and Keoua's followers | a part | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | retreat in a quote | participle | a part not said here | in the direction | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in direction=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | come in a quote | past · perfect | followers = follower | the direction not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location direction=Theme |
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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