Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 51
Pele was never patient even with her sisters, so with Kama-puaa she would burst into fiery rage, while taunts and bitter words were freely hurled back and forth.
Who acts: Pele · What happens: not be, burst, hurl · To what, where: fiery rage, taunts
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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 patient | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 patient | cop |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 patient | advmod |
| 4 | patient | patient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | even | even | ADV | _ | 8 sisters | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 sisters | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 8 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 patient | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 burst | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 burst | advmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 puaa | case |
| 12 | Kama | Kama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 puaa | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Kama | punct |
| 14 | puaa | puaa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 burst | obl |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 burst | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 burst | aux |
| 17 | burst | burst | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 patient | parataxis |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 rage | case |
| 19 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 rage | amod |
| 20 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 burst | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 hurled | punct |
| 22 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 29 hurled | mark |
| 23 | taunts | taunt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 hurled | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 words | cc |
| 25 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 words | amod |
| 26 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 taunts | conj |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 hurled | aux:pass |
| 28 | freely | freely | ADV | _ | 29 hurled | advmod |
| 29 | hurled | hurl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 burst | conj |
| 30 | back | back | ADV | _ | 29 hurled | advmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 forth | cc |
| 32 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 30 back | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 patient | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | Pele | with Pele's sisters; patient property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | burst | would | Pele | fiery rage | with Kama puaa | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | hurl | past · passive | taunts and bitter words | freely property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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