Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Na Puu O Pele, sentence 74
It seemed as if they had found the way of escape, for the surf waves waited eagerly to welcome them, and a canoe lay near the beach.
Who acts: It, floods, surf waves, canoe · What happens: seem, find, wait, welcome, lie · To what, where: way, floods, beach
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 (It, floods, surf waves, canoe), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 seemed | nsubj |
| 2 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 found | mark |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 found | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 found | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 found | aux |
| 7 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 seemed | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 way | det |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 found | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 escape | case |
| 11 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 way | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 waited | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 waited | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 waves | det |
| 15 | surf | surf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 waves | compound |
| 16 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 waited | nsubj |
| 17 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 seemed | conj |
| 18 | eagerly | eagerly | ADV | _ | 17 waited | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 welcome | mark |
| 20 | welcome | welcome | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 waited | advcl |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 welcome | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 lay | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 lay | cc |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 canoe | det |
| 25 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lay | nsubj |
| 26 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 seemed | parataxis |
| 27 | near | near | ADP | _ | 29 beach | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 beach | det |
| 29 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lay | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | It | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | find a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | floods = flood | the way of escape | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | ||||
| 3 | wait | past | the surf waves | eagerly property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | welcome | to-infinitive | the surf waves not said here | floods = flood | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 5 | lie | past | a canoe | the beach | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near beach=Location |
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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