Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Snow-goddess, sentence 30
She beckoned with most graceful gestures for him to approach the beach.
Who acts: Aiwohikupua · What happens: beckon, approach · To what, where: beach
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Snow-goddess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Aiwohikupua), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 beckoned | nsubj |
| 2 | beckoned | beckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 gestures | case |
| 4 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 gestures | amod |
| 5 | graceful | graceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 gestures | amod |
| 6 | gestures | gesture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 beckoned | obl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gestures | nmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 approach | mark |
| 10 | approach | approach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 beckoned | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 beach | det |
| 12 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 approach | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 beckoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beckon | past | Aiwohikupua | with most graceful gestures for Hamakua | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | approach | to-infinitive | Aiwohikupua not said here | the beach | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beach=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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