Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 44
The sisters begged Pele to send for the handsome stranger and make him a member of their family.
Who acts: sisters · What happens: beg, send, make · To what, where: Pele, member, stranger
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 (sisters), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sisters | det |
| 2 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 begged | nsubj |
| 3 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 begged | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 send | mark |
| 6 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 begged | xcomp |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 stranger | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 stranger | det |
| 9 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 stranger | amod |
| 10 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 send | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 make | cc |
| 12 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 send | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 make | obj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 member | det |
| 15 | member | member | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 make | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 family | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 family | nmod:poss |
| 18 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 member | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | the sisters | Pele | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent pele=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | send not said to happen | to-infinitive | the sisters not said here | for the handsome stranger | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | make | infinitive | the sisters not said here | a member of sisters's family | stranger | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary member=Product |
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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