Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Na Puu O Pele, sentence 46
The young chiefs talked together concerning their experiences and then began to draw away from their dangerous visitor.
Who acts: young chiefs, chiefs · What happens: talk, concern, begin, draw away, experience · To what, where: experiences
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 (young chiefs, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 chiefs | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 chiefs | amod |
| 3 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 talked | nsubj |
| 4 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 talked | advmod |
| 6 | concerning | concern | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 talked | advcl |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 experiences | nmod:poss |
| 8 | experiences | experience | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 concerning | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 began | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 began | advmod |
| 11 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 talked | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 draw | mark |
| 13 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 began | xcomp |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 draw | advmod |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 visitor | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 visitor | nmod:poss |
| 17 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 visitor | amod |
| 18 | visitor | visitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 draw | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 talked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | past | the young chiefs | together property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | concern | gerund | the young chiefs not said here | chiefs's experiences | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus experience=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | the young chiefs not said here | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | draw away | to-infinitive | the young chiefs not said here | from chiefs's dangerous visitor; away property | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from visitor=Co-Patient | ||||
| 5 | experience | chiefs = chief | nom experience «cognition transitive»: poss=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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