Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Na Puu O Pele, sentence 67
Then they hurried down to the beach, hoping to catch one of their canoes and escape on the ocean.
Who acts: chiefs · What happens: hurry down, hope, catch, escape · To what, where: beach, one, ocean
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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 hurried | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hurried | nsubj |
| 3 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 hurried | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 beach | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 beach | det |
| 7 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hurried | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hoping | punct |
| 9 | hoping | hope | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 hurried | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 catch | mark |
| 11 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 hoping | xcomp |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 catch | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 canoes | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 canoes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | canoes | canoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 one | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 escape | cc |
| 17 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 catch | conj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 ocean | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ocean | det |
| 20 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 escape | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hurried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurry down | past | chiefs = chief | the beach | then | down property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to beach=Destination | ||
| 2 | hope | gerund | chiefs = chief not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | catch not said to happen | to-infinitive | chiefs = chief not said here | one of chiefs's canoes | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 4 | escape | infinitive | chiefs = chief not said here | the ocean | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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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