Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 123
Into the flame-billows dashed the berries, and drove the demon from Hawa-i-ee.
Who acts: flame billows · What happens: dash, drive · To what, where: berries, demon, ee
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Kapiolani and Pele. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flame billows), 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 | Into | into | ADP | _ | 5 billows | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 billows | det |
| 3 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 billows | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 flame | punct |
| 5 | billows | billow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 dashed | nsubj |
| 6 | dashed | dash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 berries | det |
| 8 | berries | berry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 dashed | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 drove | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 drove | cc |
| 11 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dashed | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 demon | det |
| 13 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drove | obj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 ee | case |
| 15 | Hawa | Hawa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 ee | nsubj |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 ee | punct |
| 17 | i | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 ee | nsubj |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 ee | punct |
| 19 | ee | ee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drove | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dashed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dash | past | the flame billows | the berries | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Patient | ||||
| 2 | drive | past | the flame billows not said here | the demon | ee Hawa i | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent demon=Theme from ee=Trajectory |
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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