Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 92
Aka means usually “shadow,” and pictures the long shadows of the clouds across the sky as evening comes.
Who acts: evening · What happens: mean, come, shadow · To what, where: shadow, clouds
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 (evening), 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 | Aka | aka | ADV | _ | 2 means | advmod |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 5 shadow | advmod |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 shadow | punct |
| 5 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 shadow | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 shadow | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 pictures | cc |
| 9 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 shadow | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 shadows | det |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 shadows | amod |
| 12 | shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 pictures | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 clouds | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 clouds | det |
| 15 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 shadows | nmod |
| 16 | across | across | ADP | _ | 18 sky | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sky | det |
| 18 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 clouds | nmod |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 comes | mark |
| 20 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 comes | nsubj |
| 21 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 means | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | shadow and pictures the long shadows of the clouds across the sky | aka property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shadow=Topic | ||||
| 2 | come | present | evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | shadow | the clouds across the sky | nom shadow «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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