Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 110
Pele threw aside her shadow garments and came out clothed in her beautiful pa-u (skirt) and fragrant with the perfumes of Puna.
Who acts: Pele · What happens: throw, come out, clothe, perfume · To what, where: Puna
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 | 2 threw | nsubj |
| 2 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | aside | aside | ADP | _ | 6 garments | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 garments | nmod:poss |
| 5 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 garments | compound |
| 6 | garments | garment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 threw | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 came | cc |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 threw | conj |
| 9 | out | out | ADV | _ | 8 came | advmod |
| 10 | clothed | clothe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 came | advcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 u | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 u | nmod:poss |
| 13 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 u | amod |
| 14 | pa | pa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 u | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 pa | punct |
| 16 | u | u | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 clothed | obl |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 skirt | punct |
| 18 | skirt | skirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 u | appos |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 skirt | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 fragrant | cc |
| 21 | fragrant | fragrant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 u | conj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 perfumes | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 perfumes | det |
| 24 | perfumes | perfume | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 fragrant | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Puna | case |
| 26 | Puna | Puna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 perfumes | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | Pele | aside chief's shadow garments | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | come out | past | Pele not said here | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | clothe | participle | Pele not said here | in chief's beautiful pa u | vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «Passive»: agent=Pivot in u=Theme | ||||
| 4 | perfume | Puna | nom perfume «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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