Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 113
Then she called on all the noted winds of the island Niihau, stating the directions from which they came, the points of land struck when they touched the island and their gentleness or wrath, their weakness or power, and their helpfulness or destructiveness.
Who acts: chief, directions · What happens: call, note, state, come, strike, touch · To what, where: noted winds, directions, points, island, land · 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, directions), 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 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 winds | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 winds | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 winds | det |
| 7 | noted | note | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 winds | amod |
| 8 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 called | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 island | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 island | det |
| 11 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 winds | nmod |
| 12 | Niihau | Niihau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 island | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stating | punct |
| 14 | stating | state | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 called | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 directions | det |
| 16 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 stating | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 came | obl |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 came | nsubj |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 directions | acl:relcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 points | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 points | det |
| 23 | points | point | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 came | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 land | case |
| 25 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 points | nmod |
| 26 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 points | acl |
| 27 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 touched | advmod |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 touched | nsubj |
| 29 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 struck | advcl |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 island | det |
| 31 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 touched | obj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 gentleness | cc |
| 33 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 gentleness | nmod:poss |
| 34 | gentleness | gentleness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 island | conj |
| 35 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 36 wrath | cc |
| 36 | wrath | wrath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 gentleness | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 weakness | punct |
| 38 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 weakness | nmod:poss |
| 39 | weakness | weakness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 island | conj |
| 40 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 41 power | cc |
| 41 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 weakness | conj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 helpfulness | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 helpfulness | cc |
| 44 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 helpfulness | nmod:poss |
| 45 | helpfulness | helpfulness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | obl |
| 46 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 47 destructiveness | cc |
| 47 | destructiveness | destructiveness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 helpfulness | conj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | chief | all noted winds of the island | then | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | note | participle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | state speech: other | gerund | chief not said here | the directions | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent direction=Topic | ||||
| 4 | come | past | directions = direction | the points of land | the directions | directions's helpfulness or destructiveness obl | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from which=Initial_Location | ||
| 5 | strike | participle | the points of land not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | touch | past | directions = direction | the island and directions's gentleness or wrath and directions's weakness or power | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme island=Co-Theme | ||||
| 7 | wind | the island | nom wind «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 8 | point | land | nom point «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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