Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 60
After establishing a volcano there, the spirit of unrest came upon her and she again passed under the sea to the Hawaiian Islands, where she determined to stay forever.
Who acts: spirit · What happens: establish, come, pass, determine, stay · To what, where: volcano, sea
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 (spirit), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 establishing | mark |
| 2 | establishing | establish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 came | advcl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 volcano | det |
| 4 | volcano | volcano | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 establishing | obj |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 establishing | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 establishing | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 spirit | det |
| 8 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 unrest | case |
| 10 | unrest | unrest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spirit | nmod |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 came | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 passed | cc |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 passed | nsubj |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 passed | advmod |
| 17 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 came | conj |
| 18 | under | under | ADP | _ | 20 sea | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sea | det |
| 20 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 passed | obl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 Islands | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Islands | det |
| 23 | Hawaiian | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Islands | compound |
| 24 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 passed | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 determined | punct |
| 26 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 28 determined | advmod |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 determined | nsubj |
| 28 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 passed | conj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 stay | mark |
| 30 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 determined | xcomp |
| 31 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 30 stay | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | establish | gerund | the spirit of unrest not said here | a volcano | there | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent volcano=Patient | |||
| 2 | come | past | the spirit of unrest | upon Nuuhiwa | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon she=Location | ||||
| 3 | pass | past | spirit | the sea | again | to the Hawaiian Islands | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under sea=Location | ||
| 4 | determine | past | spirit | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | stay | to-infinitive | spirit not said here | forever property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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