Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Owl Ghost-god, sentence 47
They could see that dragon leaping from stone to stone, and swiftly gliding up the steep precipice.
Who acts: warriors, dragon · What happens: see, leap, glide up · To what, where: dragon, stone, steep precipice
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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | aux |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 dragon | det |
| 5 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obj |
| 6 | leaping | leap | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 dragon | acl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 stone | case |
| 8 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 leaping | obl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 stone | case |
| 10 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 leaping | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gliding | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gliding | cc |
| 13 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 14 gliding | advmod |
| 14 | gliding | glide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 see | advcl |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 gliding | compound:prt |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 precipice | det |
| 17 | steep | steep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 precipice | amod |
| 18 | precipice | precipice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gliding | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | could | warriors = warrior | that dragon | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dragon=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | leap | gerund | that dragon not said here | stone | to stone | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to stone=Destination | |||
| 3 | glide up | gerund | warriors = warrior not said here | the steep precipice | swiftly property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent precipice=Agent |
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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