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Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 119

Then Pele chanted for the return of the winds to Niihau and its small islands and the day was at peace as the voice of the singer softened toward the end of the chant.

Who acts: Pele, day, peace, winds · What happens: chant, be, soften, return · To what, where: peace

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 (Pele, day, peace, 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

advmodnsubjcasedetoblcasedetnmodcasenmodccnmod:possamodconjccdetnsubjcopcasensubjcasedetnmodcasedetnmodparataxiscasedetoblcasedetnmodpunctrootThenADVPelePROPNchantedVERBforADPtheDETreturnNOUNofADPtheDETwindsNOUNtoADPNiihauPROPNandCCONJitsPRONsmallADJislandsNOUNandCCONJtheDETdayNOUNwasAUXatADPpeaceNOUNasADPtheDETvoiceNOUNofADPtheDETsingerNOUNsoftenedVERBtowardADPtheDETendNOUNofADPtheDETchantNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThenthenADVPronType=Dem3 chantedadvmod
2PelePelePROPNNumber=Sing3 chantednsubj
3chantedchantVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4forforADP_6 returncase
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 returndet
6returnreturnNOUNNumber=Sing3 chantedobl
7ofofADP_9 windscase
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 windsdet
9windswindNOUNNumber=Plur6 returnnmod
10totoADP_11 Niihaucase
11NiihauNiihauPROPNNumber=Sing9 windsnmod
12andandCCONJ_15 islandscc
13itsitsPRONCase=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs15 islandsnmod:poss
14smallsmallADJDegree=Pos15 islandsamod
15islandsislandNOUNNumber=Plur9 windsconj
16andandCCONJ_21 peacecc
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 daydet
18daydayNOUNNumber=Sing21 peacensubj
19wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 peacecop
20atatADP_21 peacecase
21peacepeaceNOUNNumber=Sing28 softenednsubj
22asasADP_24 voicecase
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 voicedet
24voicevoiceNOUNNumber=Sing21 peacenmod
25ofofADP_27 singercase
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 singerdet
27singersingerNOUNNumber=Sing24 voicenmod
28softenedsoftenVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 chantedparataxis
29towardtowardADP_31 endcase
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 enddet
31endendNOUNNumber=Sing28 softenedobl
32ofofADP_34 chantcase
33thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art34 chantdet
34chantchantNOUNNumber=Sing31 endnmod
35..PUNCT_3 chantedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1chantpastPelethenfor the return of the winds to Niihau and return's small islandsvn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for return=Recipient
2ispastthe daypeaceas the voice of the singertree rules
3softenpastpeacetoward the end of the chantvn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4returnthe winds to Niihau and return's small islandsnom return «communication intransitive»: of=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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