Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kaha-wali, sentence 62
Assuming her supernatural form as the goddess of fire, Pele rode down the hill on her own papa-holua on the foremost wave of the river of fire.
Who acts: Pele, Anger · What happens: assume, ride down, form, wave · To what, where: supernatural form, hill, own papa holua, river
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kaha-wali. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pele, Anger), 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 | Assuming | assume | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 rode | advcl |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 form | nmod:poss |
| 3 | supernatural | supernatural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 form | amod |
| 4 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Assuming | obj |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 goddess | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 goddess | det |
| 7 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Assuming | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 fire | case |
| 9 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 goddess | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Assuming | punct |
| 11 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 rode | nsubj |
| 12 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 15 hill | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hill | det |
| 15 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rode | obl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 holua | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 holua | nmod:poss |
| 18 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 holua | amod |
| 19 | papa | papa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 holua | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 papa | punct |
| 21 | holua | holua | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rode | obl |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 wave | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 wave | det |
| 24 | foremost | foremost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 wave | amod |
| 25 | wave | wave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 holua | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 river | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 river | det |
| 28 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wave | nmod |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 fire | case |
| 30 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 river | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assume | gerund | Pele not said here | Anger's supernatural form | as the goddess of fire | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme | |||
| 2 | ride down | past | Pele | the hill | Anger's own papa holua on the foremost wave of the river of fire | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hill=Theme | |||
| 3 | form | Anger | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | wave | the river of fire | nom wave «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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