Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 123
Full of fire were her eyes and dark was her face with hot blood, but she only said: “You have seen Niihau.
Who acts: eyes, dark face, You · What happens: be, say, see · To what, where: dark face, Niihau · 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 (eyes, dark face, You), 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 | Full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dark | advcl |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 fire | case |
| 3 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Full | obl |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 dark | cop |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 dark | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 dark | cc |
| 8 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 face | amod |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 face | cop |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 face | nmod:poss |
| 11 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 said | nsubj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 blood | case |
| 13 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 blood | amod |
| 14 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 face | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 said | cc |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 said | nsubj |
| 18 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 said | advmod |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 seen | punct |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 seen | punct |
| 22 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 seen | nsubj |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 seen | aux |
| 24 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 said | ccomp |
| 25 | Niihau | Niihau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 seen | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Kilinoe's eyes | dark property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Kilinoe's dark face | with hot blood; Kilinoe nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Kilinoe's dark face | face nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | see in a quote | present · perfect | You | Niihau | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer niihau=Stimulus |
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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