Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 68
Her former lover, hastening after her and striving to overcome her, followed her upward until at last amid clouds of poisonous gases she went back into her spirit home in the pit of Kilauea.
Who acts: former lover, Pele · What happens: hasten, strive, overcome, follow, go back, cloud · To what, where: Pele, upward, poisonous gases, spirit
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 (former lover, 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 lover | nmod:poss |
| 2 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lover | amod |
| 3 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 followed | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hastening | punct |
| 5 | hastening | hasten | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 lover | acl |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hastening | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 striving | cc |
| 9 | striving | strive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 hastening | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 overcome | mark |
| 11 | overcome | overcome | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 striving | xcomp |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 overcome | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lover | punct |
| 14 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 upward | nmod:poss |
| 16 | upward | upward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 followed | obj |
| 17 | until | until | ADP | _ | 21 clouds | case |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 clouds | case |
| 19 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 clouds | amod |
| 20 | amid | amid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 clouds | compound |
| 21 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 followed | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 gases | case |
| 23 | poisonous | poisonous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 gases | amod |
| 24 | gases | gas | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 clouds | nmod |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 went | nsubj |
| 26 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 gases | acl:relcl |
| 27 | back | back | ADV | _ | 26 went | advmod |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 spirit | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 spirit | nmod:poss |
| 30 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 went | obl |
| 31 | home | home | ADV | _ | 26 went | advmod |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 pit | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 pit | det |
| 34 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 went | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Kilauea | case |
| 36 | Kilauea | Kilauea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 pit | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten | gerund | Pele's former lover not said here | after Pele | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | strive | gerund | Pele's former lover not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | overcome | to-infinitive | Pele's former lover not said here | Pele | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot she=Theme | ||||
| 4 | follow | past | Pele's former lover | Pele's upward | until last amid clouds of poisonous gases | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent upward=Theme | |||
| 5 | go back | past | Pele | poisonous gases not said here | Pele's spirit | in the pit of Kilauea; home property | tree rules | ||
| 6 | cloud | poisonous gases | nom 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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