Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Owl Ghost-god, sentence 48
He escaped to his home in the mountain recesses and nevermore troubled the chief by the sea.
Who acts: dragon · What happens: escape, trouble · To what, where: mountain recesses, chief
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 escaped | nsubj |
| 2 | escaped | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 home | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 home | nmod:poss |
| 5 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 escaped | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 recesses | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 recesses | det |
| 8 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 recesses | compound |
| 9 | recesses | recess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 escaped | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 troubled | cc |
| 11 | nevermore | nevermore | ADV | _ | 12 troubled | advmod |
| 12 | troubled | trouble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 escaped | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 chief | det |
| 14 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 troubled | obj |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 sea | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sea | det |
| 17 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 troubled | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 escaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | escape | past | dragon | the mountain recesses | to dragon's home | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to home=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | trouble | past | dragon not said here | the chief | by the sea; nevermore property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus chief=Experiencer |
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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