Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 128
“O Kauai, great island of the Lehua, Island moving in the ocean, Island moving from Tahiti, Let the winds rattle the branches to Hawaii.
Who acts: great island, Kauai, you, winds · What happens: move, let, rattle · To what, where: ocean, Tahiti, branches, Hawaii
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 (great island, Kauai, you, 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 Let | punct |
| 2 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 3 Kauai | case |
| 3 | Kauai | Kauai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Let | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 island | punct |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 island | amod |
| 6 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Kauai | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Lehua | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Lehua | det |
| 9 | Lehua | Lehua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 island | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Island | punct |
| 11 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Lehua | appos |
| 12 | moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 island | acl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 ocean | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ocean | det |
| 15 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 moving | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Island | punct |
| 17 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Kauai | appos |
| 18 | moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 Kauai | acl |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 Tahiti | case |
| 20 | Tahiti | Tahiti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 moving | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Kauai | punct |
| 22 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 winds | det |
| 24 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 rattle | nsubj |
| 25 | rattle | rattle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 Let | xcomp |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 branches | det |
| 27 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 rattle | obj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 Hawaii | case |
| 29 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 rattle | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move in a quote | gerund | great island of the Lehua not said here | the ocean | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in ocean=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | move in a quote | gerund | Kauai not said here | Tahiti | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from tahiti=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | let in a quote | imperative | you not said here | of Kauai | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | rattle in a quote | present | the winds | the branches | Hawaii | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent branch=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/14/128/