Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 114
For a long time she chanted, calling wind after wind, and while she sang, soft breezes blew around and through the house; then came stronger winds whistling through the trees outside.
Who acts: chief, soft breezes, stronger winds · What happens: chant, call, sing, blow around, come, whistle · To what, where: wind, stronger winds, trees · 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, soft breezes, stronger winds), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chanted | obl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 chanted | nsubj |
| 6 | chanted | chant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 calling | punct |
| 8 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 chanted | advcl |
| 9 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 calling | obj |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 wind | case |
| 11 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 calling | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 blew | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 blew | cc |
| 14 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 sang | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sang | nsubj |
| 16 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 blew | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sang | punct |
| 18 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 breezes | amod |
| 19 | breezes | breeze | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 blew | nsubj |
| 20 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 chanted | conj |
| 21 | around | around | ADV | _ | 20 blew | advmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 house | cc |
| 23 | through | through | ADP | _ | 25 house | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 house | det |
| 25 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 blew | conj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 came | punct |
| 27 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 came | advmod |
| 28 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 chanted | conj |
| 29 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 30 winds | amod |
| 30 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 came | obj |
| 31 | whistling | whistle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 winds | acl |
| 32 | through | through | ADP | _ | 34 trees | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 trees | det |
| 34 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 whistling | obl |
| 35 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 31 whistling | advmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 chanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chant | past | chief | time | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | call | gerund | chief not said here | wind | after wind | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wind=Recipient | |||
| 3 | sing speech: express | past | chief | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||||
| 4 | blow around | past | soft breezes | the house conj; around property | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | come | past | chief not said here | stronger winds | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wind=Theme | |||
| 6 | whistle | gerund | stronger winds not said here | the trees | outside property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through tree=Location |
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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