Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 75
Mr. Richards, a missionary, later wrote as follows: “Along the way to the volcano she was accosted by multitudes and entreated not to proceed.
Who acts: Richards, multitudes · What happens: write, follow, accost, entreat, not proceed · To what, where: Mr.
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 (Richards, multitudes), 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 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Richards | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Richards | Richards | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 wrote | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 missionary | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 missionary | det |
| 5 | missionary | missionary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Richards | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Richards | punct |
| 7 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 wrote | advmod |
| 8 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 follows | mark |
| 10 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 wrote | ccomp |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 accosted | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 accosted | punct |
| 13 | Along | along | ADP | _ | 15 way | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 way | det |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 accosted | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 volcano | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 volcano | det |
| 18 | volcano | volcano | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 way | nmod |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 accosted | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 accosted | aux:pass |
| 21 | accosted | accost | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 wrote | conj |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 multitudes | case |
| 23 | multitudes | multitude | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 accosted | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 entreated | cc |
| 25 | entreated | entreat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 accosted | conj |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 proceed | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 proceed | mark |
| 28 | proceed | proceed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 entreated | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 wrote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past | Richards Mr. | late property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | follow | present | Richards Mr. not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | accost in a quote | past · passive | multitudes | Mr. | along the way to the volcano | tree rules | |||
| 4 | entreat in a quote | past | multitudes not said here | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | not proceed in a quote | to-infinitive | multitudes not said here | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent |
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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