Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 116
While she sang, the people outside the house cried out, “The sea grows rough and white, the waves are tossed by strong winds and clouds are flying, the winds are gathering the clouds and twisting the heavens.”
Who acts: wind, people, sea, strong winds, winds · What happens: sing, cry out, grow, toss, fly, gather · To what, where: waves, clouds, heavens · 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 (wind, people, sea, strong 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 3 sang | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sang | nsubj |
| 3 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 cried | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sang | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 people | det |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cried | nsubj |
| 7 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 house | det |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 people | nmod |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 cried | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 grows | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 grows | punct |
| 14 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sea | det |
| 15 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 grows | nsubj |
| 16 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 cried | conj |
| 17 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 grows | xcomp |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 white | cc |
| 19 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 rough | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 tossed | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 waves | det |
| 22 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 tossed | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 tossed | aux:pass |
| 24 | tossed | toss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 grows | conj |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 winds | case |
| 26 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 winds | amod |
| 27 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 tossed | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 clouds | cc |
| 29 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 winds | conj |
| 30 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 flying | aux |
| 31 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 winds | acl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 gathering | punct |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 winds | det |
| 34 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 gathering | nsubj |
| 35 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 gathering | aux |
| 36 | gathering | gather | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 tossed | advcl |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 clouds | det |
| 38 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 gathering | obj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 twisting | cc |
| 40 | twisting | twist | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 gathering | conj |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 heavens | det |
| 42 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 twisting | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 grows | punct |
| 44 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 grows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | wind | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||||
| 2 | cry out speech: express | past | the people outside the house | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | grow in a quote | present | the sea | rough property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | toss in a quote | present · passive | strong winds and clouds | the waves | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 5 | fly in a quote | present · progressive | strong winds and clouds not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | gather in a quote | present · progressive | the winds | the clouds | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloud=Theme | ||||
| 7 | twist in a quote | gerund | the winds not said here | the heavens | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent heaven=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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