Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 111
She said, “It is not for me to give an olioli mele [a chant] for your native dance, but I will call the guardian winds of your islands Niihau and Kauai, O Lohiau! and they will answer my call.”
Who acts: chief, dance, Pele, your, my · What happens: say, not be, give, call, answer, dance · To what, where: olioli mele, guardian winds, call, islands · 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 (chief, dance, Pele, your), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 me | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 me | punct |
| 5 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 me | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 me | cop |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 me | advmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 me | case |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 said | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 give | mark |
| 11 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 mele | det |
| 13 | olioli | olioli | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 mele | compound |
| 14 | mele | mele | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 give | obj |
| 15 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 17 chant | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 chant | det |
| 17 | chant | chant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 mele | appos |
| 18 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 17 chant | punct |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 dance | case |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 dance | nmod:poss |
| 21 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 dance | amod |
| 22 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 give | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 call | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 call | cc |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 call | nsubj |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 call | aux |
| 27 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | parataxis |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 winds | det |
| 29 | guardian | guardian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 winds | amod |
| 30 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 call | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 islands | case |
| 32 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 islands | nmod:poss |
| 33 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 winds | nmod |
| 34 | Niihau | Niihau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 islands | appos |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 Kauai | cc |
| 36 | Kauai | Kauai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Niihau | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 Lohiau | punct |
| 38 | O | O | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Lohiau | compound |
| 39 | Lohiau | Lohiau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Niihau | conj |
| 40 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 27 call | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 answer | cc |
| 42 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 answer | nsubj |
| 43 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 answer | aux |
| 44 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | conj |
| 45 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 call | nmod:poss |
| 46 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 answer | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 44 answer | punct |
| 48 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 44 answer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | chief | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not is in a quote | present | dance | for chief | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give in a quote | to-infinitive | a olioli mele | for your native dance | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent mele=Theme for dance=Asset | ||||
| 4 | call in a quote | future | chief | the guardian winds of your islands | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wind=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | answer speech: assert in a quote | future | Pele | my call | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent call=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | dance in a quote | your | nom dance «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | wind in a quote | your islands | nom wind «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 8 | call in a quote | my | nom call «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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