Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 38
Those who were Christians were afraid that some awful explosion might overwhelm the company, as a large body of warriors had been destroyed thirty-four years before.
Who acts: Those, awful explosion · What happens: be, overwhelm, destroy · To what, where: company, large body
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 (Those, awful explosion), 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 | Those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 afraid | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 afraid | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 afraid | cop |
| 4 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 afraid | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 afraid | cop |
| 6 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 overwhelm | mark |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 explosion | det |
| 9 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 explosion | amod |
| 10 | explosion | explosion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 overwhelm | nsubj |
| 11 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 overwhelm | aux |
| 12 | overwhelm | overwhelm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 afraid | ccomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 company | det |
| 14 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 overwhelm | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 body | punct |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 body | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 body | det |
| 18 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 body | amod |
| 19 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 overwhelm | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 warriors | case |
| 21 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 destroyed | obl |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 destroyed | aux |
| 23 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 destroyed | aux:pass |
| 24 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 body | acl:relcl |
| 25 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 four | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 thirty | punct |
| 27 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 years | nummod |
| 28 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 destroyed | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | before | before | ADV | _ | 28 years | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Those | who nsubj; Christians nsubj; afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | overwhelm | might | some awful explosion | the company | as a large body | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus company=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | destroy | past · perfect · passive | a large body not said here | year | of warriors | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP» |
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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