Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Snow-goddess, sentence 66
Pele threw off all disguise and called for the forces of fire to burst open the doors of the subterranean caverns of Mauna Kea.
Who acts: Pele · What happens: throw off, call, burst, open · To what, where: disguise, doors · 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 (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 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 threw | nsubj |
| 2 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 disguise | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 disguise | det |
| 5 | disguise | disguise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 threw | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 called | cc |
| 7 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 threw | conj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 forces | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 forces | det |
| 10 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 called | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 fire | case |
| 12 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 forces | nmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 burst | mark |
| 14 | burst | burst | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 called | advcl |
| 15 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 burst | xcomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 doors | det |
| 17 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 open | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 caverns | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 caverns | det |
| 20 | subterranean | subterranean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 caverns | amod |
| 21 | caverns | cavern | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 doors | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Kea | case |
| 23 | Mauna | Mauna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Kea | compound |
| 24 | Kea | Kea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 caverns | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw off | past | Pele | all disguise | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disguise=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | Pele not said here | for the forces of fire | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for force=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | burst | to-infinitive | Pele not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | open | infinitive | Pele not said here | the doors of the subterranean caverns of Mauna Kea | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=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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