Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 115
As the voice of the singer rose or fell so also danced the winds in strict harmony.
What happens: rise, fall, dance · To what, where: winds, strict harmony
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: 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 voice | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 voice | det |
| 3 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rose | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 singer | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 singer | det |
| 6 | singer | singer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rose | obl |
| 7 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 fell | cc |
| 9 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 rose | conj |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 danced | advmod |
| 11 | also | also | ADV | _ | 12 danced | advmod |
| 12 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 fell | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 winds | det |
| 14 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 danced | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 harmony | case |
| 16 | strict | strict | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 harmony | amod |
| 17 | harmony | harmony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 winds | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | as the voice; of the singer | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of singer=Initial_Location | |||||
| 2 | fall | past | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | dance | past | the winds | strict harmony | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wind=Theme |
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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