Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Na Puu O Pele, sentence 40
Soon the two handsome young chiefs saw her and challenged her to race with them.
Who acts: two handsome young chiefs · What happens: see, challenge, race · To what, where: Pele
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Na Puu O Pele. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two handsome young chiefs), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 chiefs | det |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 chiefs | nummod |
| 4 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 chiefs | amod |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 chiefs | amod |
| 6 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 saw | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 challenged | cc |
| 10 | challenged | challenge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 saw | conj |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 challenged | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 race | mark |
| 13 | race | race | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 challenged | xcomp |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 race | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the two handsome young chiefs | Pele | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | challenge | past | the two handsome young chiefs not said here | Pele | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | race | to-infinitive | the two handsome young chiefs not said here | with chiefs = chief | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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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