Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Owl Ghost-god, sentence 46
The warriors were so surprised at the wonderful change that they forgot to fight, and only realized that this dragon was their enemy when they saw him far out of the reach of their best weapons.
Who acts: warriors, dragon · What happens: be, forget, not fight, realize, see · To what, where: wonderful change, enemy, dragon, reach · Speech: someone speaks here
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, dragon), 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 | 5 surprised | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 surprised | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 surprised | advmod |
| 5 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 change | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 change | det |
| 8 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 change | amod |
| 9 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 surprised | obl |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 forgot | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 forgot | nsubj |
| 12 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 surprised | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 fight | mark |
| 14 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 forgot | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 realized | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 realized | cc |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 realized | advmod |
| 18 | realized | realize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 surprised | parataxis |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 enemy | mark |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 dragon | det |
| 21 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 enemy | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 enemy | cop |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 enemy | nmod:poss |
| 24 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 realized | ccomp |
| 25 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 saw | advmod |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 saw | nsubj |
| 27 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 realized | advcl |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 saw | obj |
| 29 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 saw | advmod |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 33 reach | case |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 reach | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 reach | det |
| 33 | reach | reach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 saw | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 weapons | case |
| 35 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 weapons | nmod:poss |
| 36 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 37 weapons | amod |
| 37 | weapons | weapon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 reach | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 surprised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the warriors | the wonderful change | surprised property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | forget | past | warriors = warrior | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not fight | to-infinitive | warriors = warrior not said here | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | realize | past | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | is a | past | this dragon | warriors's enemy | warriors = warrior nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 6 | see | past | warriors = warrior | dragon | the reach of warriors's best weapons | far property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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