Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Snow-goddess, sentence 49
But down by the fire the sun-mantle belonging to Poliahu was thrown around her and she cried out, “He wela e, he wela!”
Who acts: sun mantle, Poliahu, retinue · What happens: belong, throw, cry out, e, wela · To what, where: Poliahu, fire · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (sun mantle, Poliahu, retinue), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 thrown | cc |
| 2 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 fire | advmod |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 fire | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fire | det |
| 5 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mantle | det |
| 7 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mantle | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 sun | punct |
| 9 | mantle | mantle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | belonging | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 mantle | acl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Poliahu | case |
| 12 | Poliahu | Poliahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 belonging | obl |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 thrown | aux:pass |
| 14 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | around | around | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 thrown | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 cried | cc |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 cried | nsubj |
| 19 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 thrown | conj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 cried | compound:prt |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 e | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 e | punct |
| 23 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 e | nsubj |
| 24 | wela | wela | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 e | compound |
| 25 | e | e | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cried | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 wela | punct |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 wela | nsubj |
| 28 | wela | wela | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 thrown | obl |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 thrown | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 thrown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong | gerund | the sun mantle not said here | Poliahu | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | throw | past · passive | the fire | around Poliahu; the sun mantle nsubj:pass | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme around she=Destination | ||||
| 3 | cry out speech: express | past | Poliahu | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | e in a quote | retinue | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | wela in a quote | retinue | tree rules |
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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