Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 104
She refused to eat while others partook of a feast before the dancing should begin, and sat watching carefully with large, bright, shining eyes the face of Lohiau, using magic power to make him pay attention to her charms.
Who acts: chief, others, dancing · What happens: refuse, not eat, partake, begin, sit, watch · To what, where: magic power, dancing, attention
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele’s Long Sleep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chief, others, dancing), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 refused | nsubj |
| 2 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 eat | mark |
| 4 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 refused | xcomp |
| 5 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 7 partook | mark |
| 6 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 partook | nsubj |
| 7 | partook | partake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 eat | ccomp |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 feast | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 feast | det |
| 10 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 partook | obl |
| 11 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 15 begin | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dancing | det |
| 13 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 begin | nsubj |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 begin | aux |
| 15 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 partook | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sat | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sat | cc |
| 18 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 refused | conj |
| 19 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 sat | xcomp |
| 20 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 19 watching | advmod |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 eyes | case |
| 22 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 eyes | amod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 bright | punct |
| 24 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 large | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 shining | punct |
| 26 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 eyes | amod |
| 27 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 watching | obl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 face | det |
| 29 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 eyes | appos |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Lohiau | case |
| 31 | Lohiau | Lohiau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 face | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 using | punct |
| 33 | using | use | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 sat | advcl |
| 34 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 power | amod |
| 35 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 using | obj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 make | mark |
| 37 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 using | advcl |
| 38 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 make | obj |
| 39 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 make | xcomp |
| 40 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 pay | obj |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 charms | case |
| 42 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 charms | nmod:poss |
| 43 | charms | charm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 pay | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 refused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | past | chief | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not eat | to-infinitive | chief not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | partake | past | others | of a feast | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | begin | should | the dancing | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | sit | past | chief not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | watch | gerund | chief not said here | with large shining eyes; carefully property | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 8 | use | gerund | chief not said here | magic power | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient | ||||
| 9 | make | to-infinitive | chief not said here | dancing | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | pay | infinitive | dancing not said here | attention | to chief's charms | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset |
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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