Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 105
Pele did not wish these women to know her, so placed a shadow between them and her so that they looked upon her as through a mist.
Who acts: Pele · What happens: not wish, know, place, look · To what, where: women, woman, shadow, mist
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 (Pele), 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 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 wish | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wish | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 wish | advmod |
| 4 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 women | det |
| 6 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wish | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 know | mark |
| 8 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wish | xcomp |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 know | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 placed | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 placed | advmod |
| 12 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 wish | parataxis |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 shadow | det |
| 14 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 placed | obj |
| 15 | between | between | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 shadow | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 her | cc |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 them | conj |
| 19 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 22 looked | mark |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 so | fixed |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 looked | nsubj |
| 22 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 placed | advcl |
| 23 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 24 her | case |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 looked | obl |
| 25 | as | as | ADV | _ | 28 mist | advmod |
| 26 | through | through | ADP | _ | 28 mist | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 mist | det |
| 28 | mist | mist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 looked | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wish | past · do-support | Pele | this women | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | Pele not said here | woman | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | place | participle | a shadow | between Pele | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent shadow=Theme between they=Destination | ||||
| 4 | look | past | Pele | a mist | upon woman | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon she=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/14/105/