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Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 42

Pele thought she could easily frighten him and drive him off, so she sent clouds of sulphur-smoke and a stream of boiling lava against him.

Who acts: Pele · What happens: think, frighten, drive off, send, cloud · To what, where: stranger, clouds, sulphur smoke · Speech: someone speaks here

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), 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

nsubjnsubjauxadvmodccompobjccconjobjcompound:prtpunctadvmodnsubjconjobjcasecompoundpunctnmodccdetconjcasecompoundnmodcasenmodpunctrootPelePROPNthoughtVERBshePRONcouldAUXeasilyADVfrightenVERBhimPRONandCCONJdriveVERBhimPRONoffADP,PUNCTsoADVshePRONsentVERBcloudsNOUNofADPsulphurNOUN-PUNCTsmokeNOUNandCCONJaDETstreamNOUNofADPboilingNOUNlavaNOUNagainstADPhimPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1PelePelePROPNNumber=Sing2 thoughtnsubj
2thoughtthinkVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 frightennsubj
4couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin6 frightenaux
5easilyeasilyADV_6 frightenadvmod
6frightenfrightenVERBVerbForm=Inf2 thoughtccomp
7himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 frightenobj
8andandCCONJ_9 drivecc
9drivedriveVERBVerbForm=Inf6 frightenconj
10himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 driveobj
11offoffADP_9 drivecompound:prt
12,,PUNCT_15 sentpunct
13sosoADV_15 sentadvmod
14sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs15 sentnsubj
15sentsendVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 thoughtconj
16cloudscloudNOUNNumber=Plur15 sentobj
17ofofADP_20 smokecase
18sulphursulphurNOUNNumber=Sing20 smokecompound
19--PUNCT_18 sulphurpunct
20smokesmokeNOUNNumber=Sing16 cloudsnmod
21andandCCONJ_23 streamcc
22aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art23 streamdet
23streamstreamNOUNNumber=Sing20 smokeconj
24ofofADP_26 lavacase
25boilingboilingNOUNNumber=Sing26 lavacompound
26lavalavaNOUNNumber=Sing23 streamnmod
27againstagainstADP_28 himcase
28himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 lavanmod
29..PUNCT_2 thoughtpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1think speech: otherpastPelevn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2frightencouldPelestrangereasily propertyvn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
3drive offinfinitivePele not said herestrangervn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4sendpastPeleclouds of sulphur smoke and a stream of boiling lava against strangervn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloud=Theme
5cloudsulphur smoke and a stream of boiling lava against strangernom cloud «phenomenon 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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