Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Owl Ghost-god, sentence 15
A great giant leaped out, thrusting an enormous spear at him.
Who acts: great giant · What happens: leap out, thrust · To what, where: great giant, enormous spear
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Owl Ghost-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great giant), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 giant | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 giant | amod |
| 3 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thrusting | nsubj |
| 4 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 giant | acl |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 leaped | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 thrusting | punct |
| 7 | thrusting | thrust | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 spear | det |
| 9 | enormous | enormous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 spear | amod |
| 10 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thrusting | obj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 thrusting | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 thrusting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leap out | participle | a great giant not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | thrust | gerund | a great giant | a enormous spear | at Kau | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spear=Theme |
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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