Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 123
Perhaps this desire for reconciliation underlies the legendary love of Pele for sacrifices of those things which would most intimately connect her with Kama-puaa.
Who acts: desire · What happens: underlie, connect, love, sacrifice · To what, where: legendary love, things, Pele
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kama-puaa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (desire), 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 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 6 underlies | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 desire | det |
| 3 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 underlies | nsubj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 reconciliation | case |
| 5 | reconciliation | reconciliation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 desire | nmod |
| 6 | underlies | underlie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 love | det |
| 8 | legendary | legendary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 love | amod |
| 9 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 underlies | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Pele | case |
| 11 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 love | nmod |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 sacrifices | case |
| 13 | sacrifices | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 love | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 things | case |
| 15 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 things | det |
| 16 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 sacrifices | nmod |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 connect | obj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 connect | aux |
| 19 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 20 intimately | advmod |
| 20 | intimately | intimately | ADV | _ | 21 connect | advmod |
| 21 | connect | connect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 things | acl:relcl |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 connect | obj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 puaa | case |
| 24 | Kama | Kama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 puaa | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 Kama | punct |
| 26 | puaa | puaa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 connect | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 underlies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | underlie | present | this desire for reconciliation | the legendary love of Pele | for sacrifices of that things; perhaps property | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme love=Co-Theme | |||
| 2 | connect | would | that things | with Kama puaa; Pele obj; intimately property | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent which=Patient she=Result | ||||
| 3 | love | Pele | for sacrifices of that things | nom love «feeling transitive»: of=patient for=obl | |||||
| 4 | sacrifice | that things | nom sacrifice «act 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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