Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 69
As the smoke rose to the clouds, the angry watching one rushed from Nuu-mea-lani and tried to slay the family.
Who acts: smoke · What happens: rise, watch, rush, try, slay · To what, where: clouds, one, Nuu mea lani, family
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, How Pele Came to Hawaii. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smoke), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 rose | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 smoke | det |
| 3 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rose | nsubj |
| 4 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 clouds | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 clouds | det |
| 7 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 rose | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 watching | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 watching | det |
| 10 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 watching | amod |
| 11 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 rose | advcl |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 watching | obj |
| 13 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 one | acl |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 lani | case |
| 15 | Nuu | Nuu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 lani | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Nuu | punct |
| 17 | mea | mea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lani | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 mea | punct |
| 19 | lani | lani | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rushed | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 tried | cc |
| 21 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rose | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 slay | mark |
| 23 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 tried | xcomp |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 family | det |
| 25 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 slay | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | the smoke | the clouds | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cloud=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | watch | gerund | the smoke not said here | one | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 3 | rush | participle | Nuu mea lani | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from lani=Trajectory | |||||
| 4 | try | past | the smoke not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | slay not said to happen | to-infinitive | the smoke not said here | the family | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=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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