Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Owl Ghost-god, sentence 41
Then came the warriors in a great body around the giant and his ghost-god.
What happens: come · To what, where: warriors, great body
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: 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 came | advmod |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 warriors | det |
| 4 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 came | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 body | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 body | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 body | amod |
| 8 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 9 | around | around | ADP | _ | 11 giant | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 giant | det |
| 11 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 came | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 god | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 god | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ghost | ghost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 god | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 ghost | punct |
| 16 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 giant | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the warriors | a great body | then | around the giant and Pele's ghost god | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location warrior=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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