Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 120
Hushed were the people and wondering were the eyes turned upon Pele by the chiefs who were seated in the great halau.
Who acts: Hushed people · What happens: hush, be, wonder, seat · To what, where: Hushed people, chiefs, great halau
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 (Hushed people), 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 | Hushed | hush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 people | amod |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 people | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 people | det |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 turned | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 wondering | cc |
| 6 | wondering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 people | conj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 turned | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 eyes | det |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 turned | nsubj |
| 10 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 Pele | case |
| 12 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 turned | obl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 chiefs | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 chiefs | det |
| 15 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 turned | obl |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 seated | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 seated | aux:pass |
| 18 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 chiefs | acl:relcl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 halau | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 halau | det |
| 21 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 halau | amod |
| 22 | halau | halau | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 seated | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hush | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | the Hushed people | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | the Hushed people | upon Pele; by the chiefs; the eyes nsubj; turn property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | seat | past · passive | the chiefs | the great halau | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in halau=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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