Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 109
But the law of Pele was upon him and he called to her for a chant before the dance should commence.
Who acts: law, dance · What happens: be, call, commence · To what, where: chief · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (law, dance), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 him | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 law | det |
| 3 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 him | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Pele | case |
| 5 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 law | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 him | cop |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 called | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 he | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 him | conj |
| 11 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 called | obl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 chant | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 chant | det |
| 16 | chant | chant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 called | obl |
| 17 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 21 commence | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 dance | det |
| 19 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 commence | nsubj |
| 20 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 commence | aux |
| 21 | commence | commence | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 called | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the law of Pele | upon Kauai | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call | past | chief | for a chant | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | commence | should | the dance | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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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