Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Na Puu O Pele, sentence 65
The chiefs tried to flee toward the north, but Pele hurled the fiercest torrents beyond them to turn them back.
Who acts: chiefs, Pele · What happens: try, flee, hurl, turn back · To what, where: north, fiercest torrents, chiefs
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 (chiefs, Pele), 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 chiefs | det |
| 2 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tried | nsubj |
| 3 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 flee | mark |
| 5 | flee | flee | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tried | xcomp |
| 6 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 8 north | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 north | det |
| 8 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flee | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hurled | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 hurled | cc |
| 11 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 hurled | nsubj |
| 12 | hurled | hurl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tried | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 torrents | det |
| 14 | fiercest | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 torrents | amod |
| 15 | torrents | torrent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 hurled | obj |
| 16 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 hurled | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 turn | mark |
| 19 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 hurled | advcl |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 turn | obj |
| 21 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 turn | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | the chiefs | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | flee not said to happen | to-infinitive | the chiefs not said here | the north | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme toward north=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | hurl | past | Pele | the fiercest torrents | beyond chiefs = chief | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent torrent=Theme beyond they=Destination | |||
| 4 | turn back | to-infinitive | Pele not said here | chiefs = chief | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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