Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 55
Mahuike tried to make Pere quiet down, and finally drove her away.
Who acts: Mahuike, Pere · What happens: try, make, quiet down, drive away · To what, where: Pere
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Genealogy of the Pele Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mahuike, Pere), 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 | Mahuike | Mahuike | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 tried | nsubj |
| 2 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 make | mark |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tried | xcomp |
| 5 | Pere | Pere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 make | obj |
| 6 | quiet | quiet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 make | xcomp |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 quiet | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 drove | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 drove | cc |
| 10 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 11 drove | advmod |
| 11 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 tried | conj |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 drove | obj |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 drove | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | Mahuike | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | Mahuike not said here | Pere | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | quiet down not said to happen | infinitive | Pere not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | drive away | past | Mahuike not said here | Pere | away, finally property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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