Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 91
There remained, however, a small spark of fire hidden in the breast of Lono-makua.
Who acts: fire · What happens: remain, hide, spark · To what, where: small spark, fire, breast
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 (fire), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 remained | expl |
| 2 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 remained | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 2 remained | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 spark | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 spark | det |
| 7 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 spark | amod |
| 8 | spark | spark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 remained | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 fire | case |
| 10 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spark | nmod |
| 11 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 fire | acl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 breast | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 breast | det |
| 14 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hidden | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 makua | case |
| 16 | Lono | Lono | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 makua | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Lono | punct |
| 18 | makua | makua | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 breast | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | participle | a small spark of fire | there | however property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | hide | participle | fire not said here | the breast of Lono makua | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in breast=Location | ||||
| 3 | spark | fire | nom spark «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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