Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kaha-wali, sentence 64
There she stood leaning forward to catch her antagonist, and urging her fire-waves to the swiftest possible action.
Who acts: Pele · What happens: stand, lean, catch, urge, wave · To what, where: antagonist, fire waves
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), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 stood | expl |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | leaning | lean | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 stood | xcomp |
| 5 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 4 leaning | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 catch | mark |
| 7 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 leaning | advcl |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 antagonist | nmod:poss |
| 9 | antagonist | antagonist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 catch | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 urging | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 urging | cc |
| 12 | urging | urge | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 stood | advcl |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 waves | nmod:poss |
| 14 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 waves | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 fire | punct |
| 16 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 urging | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 action | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 action | det |
| 19 | swiftest | swift | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 action | amod |
| 20 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 action | amod |
| 21 | action | action | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 urging | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Pele | there | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | lean | gerund | Pele not said here | forward property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | catch | to-infinitive | Pele not said here | Pele's antagonist | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent antagonist=Theme | ||||
| 4 | urge | gerund | Pele not said here | Pele's fire waves | to the swiftest possible action | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wave=Recipient | |||
| 5 | wave | Pele | nom wave «event transitive»: 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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