Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 112
Then she called for the gods who came to Hawaii; the gods of her old home now known through all Polynesia; the great gods Lono and his brothers, coming in the winds of heaven.
Who acts: chief, gods · What happens: call, come, know, wind · To what, where: gods, Hawaii, Polynesia, winds, heaven · 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, gods), 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 called | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 called | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 gods | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 gods | det |
| 6 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 called | obl |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gods | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Hawaii | case |
| 10 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 gods | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 gods | det |
| 13 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 called | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 old | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 old | nmod:poss |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 gods | amod |
| 17 | home | home | ADV | _ | 16 old | advmod |
| 18 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 known | advmod |
| 19 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 old | advcl |
| 20 | through | through | ADP | _ | 22 Polynesia | case |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 Polynesia | det |
| 22 | Polynesia | Polynesia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 known | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 gods | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 gods | det |
| 25 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 gods | amod |
| 26 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 called | obl |
| 27 | Lono | Lono | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 gods | appos |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 brothers | cc |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 30 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 Lono | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 coming | punct |
| 32 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 called | advcl |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 winds | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 winds | det |
| 35 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 coming | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 heaven | case |
| 37 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 winds | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | chief | the gods | then | for the gods; the great gods obl | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for god=Recipient | ||
| 2 | come | past | the gods | Hawaii | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hawaii=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | know | participle | chief not said here | all Polynesia | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | come | gerund | chief not said here | the winds of heaven | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wind=Location | ||||
| 5 | wind | heaven | nom wind «phenomenon 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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