Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 132
Then Pele’s voice rang out while she made known the character of the beautiful dragon-women, the guardians of the caves of Haena, calling them the mocking winds of Haena.
Who acts: voice · What happens: ring out, know, call, wind · To what, where: wind, caves, Haena · 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 (voice), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 rang | advmod |
| 2 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 voice | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 Pele | case |
| 4 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rang | nsubj |
| 5 | rang | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 rang | compound:prt |
| 7 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 10 known | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 known | nsubj |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 known | aux:pass |
| 10 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 rang | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 character | det |
| 12 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 known | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 women | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 women | det |
| 15 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 women | amod |
| 16 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 women | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 dragon | punct |
| 18 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 character | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 guardians | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 guardians | det |
| 21 | guardians | guardian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 women | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 caves | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 caves | det |
| 24 | caves | cave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 guardians | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Haena | case |
| 26 | Haena | Haena | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 caves | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 calling | punct |
| 28 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 rang | advcl |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 calling | obj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 winds | det |
| 31 | mocking | mocking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 winds | compound |
| 32 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 calling | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 Haena | case |
| 34 | Haena | Haena | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 winds | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ring out | past | Pele's voice | then | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know | past · passive | wind | the character of the beautiful dragon women and the guardians of the caves of Haena obj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | call | gerund | Pele's voice not said here | caves = cave | the mocking winds of Haena obj | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme wind=Result | |||
| 4 | wind | Haena | 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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