Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kaha-wali, sentence 91
They took their positions near Kilauea and challenged Pele, crying out: “Where is that strange and wonderful woman?”
Who acts: descendants · What happens: take, challenge, cry out, be · To what, where: positions, Kilauea, Pele · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (descendants), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 positions | nmod:poss |
| 4 | positions | position | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | near | near | ADP | _ | 6 Kilauea | case |
| 6 | Kilauea | Kilauea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 challenged | cc |
| 8 | challenged | challenge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 9 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 challenged | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 crying | punct |
| 11 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 challenged | advcl |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 crying | compound:prt |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 strange | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 strange | punct |
| 15 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 strange | advmod |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 strange | cop |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 strange | mark |
| 18 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 took | parataxis |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 wonderful | cc |
| 20 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 strange | conj |
| 21 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 strange | vocative |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 strange | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | descendants = descendant | descendants's positions | Kilauea | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent position=Theme clause=Attribute | |||
| 2 | challenge | past | descendants = descendant not said here | Pele | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cry out speech: express | gerund | descendants = descendant not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | woman vocative; strange property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | be in a quote | tree rules |
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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