Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 107
There the chiefs took their hula-drums and sat down preparing to play for the dancers.
Who acts: chiefs · What happens: take, sit down, prepare, play · To what, where: hula drums
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 (chiefs), 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 | 4 took | expl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 chiefs | det |
| 3 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 drums | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hula | hula | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drums | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 hula | punct |
| 8 | drums | drum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 took | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sat | cc |
| 10 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 sat | compound:prt |
| 12 | preparing | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 sat | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 play | mark |
| 14 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 preparing | xcomp |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 dancers | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 dancers | det |
| 17 | dancers | dancer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 play | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the chiefs | Pele's hula drums | there | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drum=Theme | |||
| 2 | sit down | past | the chiefs not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | prepare | gerund | the chiefs not said here | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | play not said to happen | to-infinitive | the chiefs not said here | for the dancers | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent for dancer=Eventuality |
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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