Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 127
Pele again chanted, calling for the guardian winds of the island Kauai:
Who acts: Pele · What happens: chant, call, wind · To what, where: island · 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 (Pele), 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 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 chanted | nsubj |
| 2 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 chanted | advmod |
| 3 | chanted | chant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 calling | punct |
| 5 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 chanted | advcl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 winds | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 winds | det |
| 8 | guardian | guardian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 winds | amod |
| 9 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 calling | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 island | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 island | det |
| 12 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 winds | nmod |
| 13 | Kauai | Kauai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 island | appos |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 chanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chant | past | Pele | again | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | call | gerund | Pele not said here | for the guardian winds of the island | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for wind=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | wind | the island | nom wind «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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