Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 117
But one of the dragon-women sitting near Lohiau said: “The noise you think is from the sea or rustling through the leaves of the trees is only the sound of the people talking outside the great building.
Who acts: dragon women, one, you, noise, rustling, people · What happens: sit, say, think, be, rustle, talk · To what, where: Lohiau, noise, sea, leaves, sound · 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 (dragon women, one, you, noise), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 said | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 women | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 women | det |
| 5 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 women | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 dragon | punct |
| 7 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 one | nmod |
| 8 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 women | acl |
| 9 | near | near | ADP | _ | 10 Lohiau | case |
| 10 | Lohiau | Lohiau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 sitting | obl |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 sea | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 sea | punct |
| 14 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 noise | det |
| 15 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sea | nsubj |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 think | nsubj |
| 17 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 noise | acl:relcl |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 sea | cop |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 sea | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sea | det |
| 21 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | ccomp |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 33 sound | cc |
| 23 | rustling | rustle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 sound | csubj |
| 24 | through | through | ADP | _ | 26 leaves | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 leaves | det |
| 26 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 rustling | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 trees | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 trees | det |
| 29 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 leaves | nmod |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 sound | cop |
| 31 | only | only | ADV | _ | 33 sound | advmod |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 sound | det |
| 33 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sea | conj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 people | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 people | det |
| 36 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 sound | nmod |
| 37 | talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 people | acl |
| 38 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 41 building | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 building | det |
| 40 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 building | amod |
| 41 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 talking | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | gerund | the dragon women not said here | Lohiau | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near lohiau=Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | one of the dragon women | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other in a quote | present | you | the noise not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot noise=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | the noise | the sea or the sound | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | rustle in a quote | gerund | the leaves of the trees | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through leaf=Location | |||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | present | rustling | the sound | of the people | tree rules | |||
| 7 | talk in a quote | gerund | the people not said here | outside the great building | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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