Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, sentence 56
Some of the narrators who saw the corpses affirm that, though in no place deeply burnt, yet they were thoroughly scorched.”
Who acts: narrators, Some · What happens: see, affirm, scorch · To what, where: 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 (narrators, Some), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 affirm | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 narrators | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 narrators | det |
| 4 | narrators | narrator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Some | nmod |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 narrators | acl:relcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 corpses | det |
| 8 | corpses | corpse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 saw | obj |
| 9 | affirm | affirm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 place | mark |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 place | punct |
| 12 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 15 place | mark |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 place | case |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 place | det |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 affirm | ccomp |
| 16 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 17 burnt | advmod |
| 17 | burnt | burnt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 place | amod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 scorched | punct |
| 19 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 23 scorched | cc |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 scorched | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 scorched | aux:pass |
| 22 | thoroughly | thoroughly | ADV | _ | 23 scorched | advmod |
| 23 | scorched | scorch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 affirm | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 affirm | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 affirm | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the narrators | the corpses | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer corpse=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | affirm | present | Some of the narrators | no place ccomp | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | scorch | past · passive | corpses = corpse | thoroughly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
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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