Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 44
The people followed their chiefess some distance with prayers and tears.
Who acts: people · What happens: follow · To what, where: chiefess
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 (people), 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 | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 followed | nsubj |
| 3 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 chiefess | nmod:poss |
| 5 | chiefess | chiefess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 followed | obj |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 distance | det |
| 7 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 followed | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 prayers | case |
| 9 | prayers | prayer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 distance | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 tears | cc |
| 11 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 prayers | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | the people | people's chiefess | some distance obj | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: agent=Agent chiefess=Theme distance=Attribute |
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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