Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 129
Let them point to the eye of the sun. There is the wind of Kane at sunset— The hard night-wind for Kauai.”
Who acts: you, branches, wind · What happens: let, point, be, wind · To what, where: branches, eye, sun., Kane
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 (you, branches, wind), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | point | point | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 eye | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 eye | det |
| 6 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 point | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 sun. | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sun. | det |
| 9 | sun. | sun. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 eye | nmod |
| 10 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 is | expl |
| 11 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 sun. | acl:relcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wind | det |
| 13 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 is | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Kane | case |
| 15 | Kane | Kane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 wind | nmod |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 sunset | case |
| 17 | sunset | sunset | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wind | nmod |
| 18 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 wind | punct |
| 19 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 wind | det |
| 20 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 wind | amod |
| 21 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 wind | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 night | punct |
| 23 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wind | conj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 Kauai | case |
| 25 | Kauai | Kauai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 wind | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | branches = branch | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | point | infinitive | branches = branch not said here | the eye of the sun. | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to eye=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | does | present | the wind of Kane at sunset and the hard night wind for Kauai | the sun. not said here | there | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot sun.=Theme | |||
| 4 | wind | Kane | at sunset | nom wind «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient at=obl |
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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