Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 93

There is really no twilight worth mentioning in the Hawaiian Islands and Hiiaka would be better interpreted as “lifting sunset shadows,” or holding up the smoke clouds while their shadows fall over the fires of the crater, conveying the idea of fire-light shining up under smoke clouds as they rise from the lake of fire.

Who acts: shadows, fire light, shadow · What happens: be, mention, interpret, lift, hold up, fall · To what, where: Hawaiian Islands, twilight, sunset shadows, smoke clouds, fires, idea · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (shadows, fire light, shadow), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	really	really	ADV	_	2 is	advmod
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 twilight	det
5	twilight	twilight	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 interpreted	nsubj:pass
6	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 twilight	amod
7	mentioning	mention	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 worth	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 Islands	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Islands	det
10	Hawaiian	Hawaiian	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Islands	compound
11	Islands	Island	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 mentioning	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 Hiiaka	cc
13	Hiiaka	Hiiaka	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Islands	conj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 interpreted	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 interpreted	aux:pass
16	better	better	ADV	_	17 interpreted	advmod
17	interpreted	interpret	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 is	parataxis
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 lifting	mark
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 lifting	punct
20	lifting	lift	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 interpreted	advcl
21	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 shadows	compound
22	shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 lifting	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lifting	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	20 lifting	punct
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 holding	cc
26	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 lifting	conj
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 holding	compound:prt
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 clouds	det
29	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 clouds	compound
30	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 holding	obj
31	while	while	SCONJ	_	34 fall	mark
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 shadows	nmod:poss
33	shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 fall	nsubj
34	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 holding	advcl
35	over	over	ADP	_	37 fires	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 fires	det
37	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 fall	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 crater	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 crater	det
40	crater	crater	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 fires	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 conveying	punct
42	conveying	convey	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 fall	advcl
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 idea	det
44	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 conveying	obj
45	of	of	ADP	_	48 light	case
46	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 light	compound
47	-	-	PUNCT	_	46 fire	punct
48	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 idea	nmod
49	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	48 light	acl
50	up	up	ADP	_	49 shining	compound:prt
51	under	under	ADP	_	53 clouds	case
52	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 clouds	compound
53	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 shining	obl
54	as	as	SCONJ	_	56 rise	mark
55	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 rise	nsubj
56	rise	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 conveying	advcl
57	from	from	ADP	_	59 lake	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 lake	det
59	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 rise	obl
60	of	of	ADP	_	61 fire	case
61	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 lake	nmod
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	mention speech: other	gerund			the Hawaiian Islands and Hiiaka		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	interpret	would · passive		no twilight		better property	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme
4	lift in a quote	gerund		sunset shadows			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shadow=Theme
5	hold up	gerund		the smoke clouds			vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot cloud=Theme
6	fall	present	shadow's shadows		the fires of the crater		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over fire=Location
7	convey	gerund	shadow's shadows not said here	the idea of fire light			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent idea=Topic
8	shine up	gerund	fire light not said here		smoke clouds		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under cloud=Location
9	rise	present	shadow		the lake of fire		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from lake=Initial_Location
10	shadow		shadow				nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent
11	fire			the crater			nom fire «event 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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🌲 Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 93

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Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 93