--- title: The forest birds in multitudes screamed around her, dashed against h… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics description: The forest birds in multitudes screamed around her, dashed against her, tried to pick out her eyes and confuse her every effort. Who acts: forest birds. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. 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Westervelt, Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (forest birds), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66516:16:60 # text = The forest birds in multitudes screamed around her, dashed against her, tried to pick out her eyes and confuse her every effort. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 multitudes multitude NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 6 screamed scream VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 around around ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 dashed dash VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 11 against against ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 tried try VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 pick pick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 out out ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 18 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 confuse confuse VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 22 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 24 det _ _ 24 effort effort NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **scream** *speech: express* | past | the forest birds in multitudes | | | | | around Hiiaka | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around she=Location | | 2 | **dash** | past | the forest birds in multitudes *not said here* | | | | | against Hiiaka | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against she=Trajectory | | 3 | **try** | past | the forest birds in multitudes *not said here* | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **pick out** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the forest birds in multitudes *not said here* | Hiiaka's eyes | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | | 5 | **confuse** | present | the forest birds in multitudes *not said here* | Hiiaka | | | | every effort *obj* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer effort=Result | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/16/59/) - next →: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/16/61/) - ↑ back to [Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/16/)