Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 7
It was supposed that the spirit also went into the flame, finding there its permanent dwelling-place.
Who acts: spirit · What happens: suppose, go, find · To what, where: part, flame, permanent dwelling place
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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 supposed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 supposed | aux:pass |
| 3 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 went | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 spirit | det |
| 6 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | nsubj |
| 7 | also | also | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 supposed | advcl |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 flame | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 flame | det |
| 11 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 finding | punct |
| 13 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 went | advcl |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 finding | advmod |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 place | nmod:poss |
| 16 | permanent | permanent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 place | amod |
| 17 | dwelling | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 place | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 dwelling | punct |
| 19 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 finding | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 supposed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose | past · passive | part | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | go | past | the spirit | the flame | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into flame=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | find | gerund | the spirit not said here | part's permanent dwelling place | there | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic |
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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