Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 64
Pele’s home life was given up, the bitterness of strife swept over the black sands of the seashore.
Who acts: bitterness · What happens: give up, sweep · To what, where: home life, black sands
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 (bitterness), 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 life | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 1 Pele | case |
| 3 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 life | compound |
| 4 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 given | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 given | aux:pass |
| 6 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 given | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 swept | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bitterness | det |
| 10 | bitterness | bitterness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 swept | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 strife | case |
| 12 | strife | strife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bitterness | nmod |
| 13 | swept | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 given | conj |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 sands | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sands | det |
| 16 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 sands | amod |
| 17 | sands | sand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 swept | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 seashore | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 seashore | det |
| 20 | seashore | seashore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sands | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give up | past · passive | Pele's home life | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Source | |||||
| 2 | sweep | past | the bitterness of strife | the black sands of the seashore | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over sand=Trajectory |
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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