Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 28
Here she rested among glorious fountains of fire; or, rising in sport, dashed the flaming clouds in twisted masses around the precipices guarding her palace.
Who acts: Pele, precipices · What happens: rest, rise, dash, guard · To what, where: glorious fountains, sport, flaming clouds, twisted masses, palace
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 (Pele, precipices), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 rested | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rested | nsubj |
| 3 | rested | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | among | among | ADP | _ | 6 fountains | case |
| 5 | glorious | glorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fountains | amod |
| 6 | fountains | fountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rested | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 fire | case |
| 8 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fountains | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 rising | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 rising | cc |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rising | punct |
| 12 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 rested | advcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 sport | case |
| 14 | sport | sport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rising | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 dashed | punct |
| 16 | dashed | dash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rested | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 clouds | det |
| 18 | flaming | flaming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 clouds | compound |
| 19 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 dashed | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 masses | case |
| 21 | twisted | twisted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 masses | amod |
| 22 | masses | mass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 clouds | nmod |
| 23 | around | around | ADP | _ | 25 precipices | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 precipices | det |
| 25 | precipices | precipice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 masses | nmod |
| 26 | guarding | guard | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 precipices | acl |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 palace | nmod:poss |
| 28 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 guarding | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest | past | Pele | glorious fountains of fire; here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent among fountain=Location | ||||
| 2 | rise | gerund | Pele not said here | sport | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sport=Location | ||||
| 3 | dash | past | Pele not said here | the flaming clouds | twisted masses around the precipices | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent cloud=Theme in mass=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | guard | gerund | the precipices not said here | Pele's palace | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Beneficiary |
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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