Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Owl Ghost-god, sentence 23
The warriors fled as this mighty giant charged upon them.
Who acts: warriors · What happens: flee, charge · To what, where: mighty giant
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 (warriors), 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 warriors | det |
| 2 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fled | nsubj |
| 3 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 giant | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 giant | det |
| 6 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 giant | amod |
| 7 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fled | obl |
| 8 | charged | charge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 giant | acl |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 charged | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flee | past | the warriors | as this mighty giant | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | charge | participle | this mighty giant not said here | upon warriors = warrior | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon they=Trajectory |
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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