Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Owl Ghost-god, sentence 17
He avoided the thrusts and leaped to his feet.
Who acts: Kau · What happens: avoid, leap · To what, where: thrusts, feet
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 (Kau), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 avoided | nsubj |
| 2 | avoided | avoid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 thrusts | det |
| 4 | thrusts | thrust | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 avoided | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 leaped | cc |
| 6 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 avoided | conj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 feet | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 feet | nmod:poss |
| 9 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 leaped | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 avoided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | avoid | past | Kau | the thrusts | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent thrust=Location | ||||
| 2 | leap | participle | Kau not said here | Kau's feet | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to foot=Destination |
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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