Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 108
Then up rose Kilinoe, and, taking ferns and flowers from her skirts, made fragrant wreaths wherewith to crown Lohiau and his fellow hula-drummers, expecting the chief to see her beauty and take her for his companion.
Who acts: skirts · What happens: rise, take, make, crown, expect, see · To what, where: Kilinoe, ferns, skirts, fragrant wreaths, Lohiau, chief
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 (skirts), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 rose | advmod |
| 2 | up | up | ADV | _ | 3 rose | advmod |
| 3 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Kilinoe | Kilinoe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 rose | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 taking | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 taking | cc |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 taking | punct |
| 8 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 rose | advcl |
| 9 | ferns | fern | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 taking | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 flowers | cc |
| 11 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 ferns | conj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 skirts | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 skirts | nmod:poss |
| 14 | skirts | skirt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 taking | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 made | punct |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 skirts | acl |
| 17 | fragrant | fragrant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 wreaths | amod |
| 18 | wreaths | wreath | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 made | obj |
| 19 | wherewith | wherewith | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 crown | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 crown | mark |
| 21 | crown | crown | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 made | advcl |
| 22 | Lohiau | Lohiau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 crown | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 drummers | cc |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 drummers | nmod:poss |
| 25 | fellow | fellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 drummers | amod |
| 26 | hula | hula | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 drummers | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 hula | punct |
| 28 | drummers | drummer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 Lohiau | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 expecting | punct |
| 30 | expecting | expect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 taking | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 chief | det |
| 32 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 expecting | obj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 see | mark |
| 34 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 expecting | advcl |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 36 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 see | obj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 take | cc |
| 38 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 see | conj |
| 39 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 take | obj |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 companion | case |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 companion | nmod:poss |
| 42 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 take | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | Kilinoe | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location kilinoe=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | gerund | ferns and flowers | Kilinoe's skirts | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent fern=Theme from skirt=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | make | participle | Kilinoe's skirts not said here | fragrant wreaths | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wreath=Product | ||||
| 4 | crown | to-infinitive | Kilinoe's skirts not said here | Lohiau and Kauai's fellow hula drummers | wherewith property | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lohiau=Theme | |||
| 5 | expect | gerund | the chief | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chief=Theme | |||||
| 6 | see | to-infinitive | chief's beauty | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beauty=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | take | infinitive | chief | for Kauai's companion | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent she=Theme for companion=Beneficiary |
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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