Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Na Puu O Pele, sentence 73
Nearer and nearer to the sea came the swift runners.
Who acts: Nearer · What happens: come · To what, where: swift runners
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 (Nearer), 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 | Nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 came | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 nearer | cc |
| 3 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Nearer | conj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 sea | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sea | det |
| 6 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nearer | obl |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 runners | det |
| 9 | swift | swift | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 runners | amod |
| 10 | runners | runner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 came | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Nearer | the swift runners | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location runner=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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