Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Chiefs of Puna, sentence 13
She chased the chief to the sea, caught him on the beach, heaped up a great mound of broken lava over him, and poured her lava flood around him and beyond him far out into the ocean.
Who acts: anger, beach · What happens: chase, catch, heap up, break, pour, flood · To what, where: chief, sea, love, beach, great mound, lava flood
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Chiefs of Puna. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (anger, beach), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 chased | nsubj |
| 2 | chased | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 chief | det |
| 4 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 chased | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 sea | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sea | det |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 chased | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 caught | punct |
| 9 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 chased | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 caught | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 beach | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 beach | det |
| 13 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 caught | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 heaped | punct |
| 15 | heaped | heap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 beach | acl |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 heaped | compound:prt |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 mound | det |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 mound | amod |
| 19 | mound | mound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 heaped | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 lava | case |
| 21 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 lava | amod |
| 22 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 mound | nmod |
| 23 | over | over | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 lava | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 poured | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 poured | cc |
| 27 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 chased | parataxis |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 flood | nmod:poss |
| 29 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 flood | compound |
| 30 | flood | flood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 poured | obj |
| 31 | around | around | ADP | _ | 32 him | case |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 poured | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 him | cc |
| 34 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 35 him | case |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 him | conj |
| 36 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 37 out | advmod |
| 37 | out | out | ADV | _ | 27 poured | advmod |
| 38 | into | into | ADP | _ | 40 ocean | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 ocean | det |
| 40 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 poured | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 chased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chase | past | anger | the chief | the sea | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent chief=Theme to sea=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | catch | past | anger not said here | love | the beach | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | heap up | participle | the beach not said here | a great mound of broken lava over love | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent mound=Theme | ||||
| 4 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | pour | past | anger's lava flood | the ocean | around love; out property | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent flood=Theme into ocean=Destination | |||
| 6 | flood | anger | nom flood «phenomenon intransitive»: 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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