Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 133
The people did not understand, but the dragon-women knew that Pele only needed to point them out as they sat near Lohiau, to have all the chiefs cry out against them in scorn.
Who acts: people, dragon women, Pele, chiefs · What happens: not understand, know, need, point out, sit, have · To what, where: Pele, Lohiau, scorn · 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 (people, dragon women, Pele, chiefs), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 understand | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 understand | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 understand | advmod |
| 5 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 knew | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 knew | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 women | det |
| 9 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 women | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 dragon | punct |
| 11 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 knew | nsubj |
| 12 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 understand | conj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 needed | mark |
| 14 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 needed | nsubj |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 needed | advmod |
| 16 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 knew | ccomp |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 point | mark |
| 18 | point | point | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 needed | xcomp |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 point | obj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 point | compound:prt |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 sat | mark |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 sat | nsubj |
| 23 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 point | advcl |
| 24 | near | near | ADP | _ | 25 Lohiau | case |
| 25 | Lohiau | Lohiau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 sat | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 have | punct |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 have | mark |
| 28 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 point | conj |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 chiefs | det:predet |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 chiefs | det |
| 31 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 cry | nsubj |
| 32 | cry | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 have | ccomp |
| 33 | out | out | ADP | _ | 32 cry | compound:prt |
| 34 | against | against | ADP | _ | 35 them | case |
| 35 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 cry | obl |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 scorn | case |
| 37 | scorn | scorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 cry | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 understand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not understand | past · do-support | the people | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | know | past | the dragon women | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | need | past | Pele | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | point out not said to happen | to-infinitive | Pele not said here | Pele | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 5 | sit | past | Pele | Lohiau | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near lohiau=Location | ||||
| 6 | have | to-infinitive | Pele not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | cry out speech: express | present | all chiefs | scorn | against Pele | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against they=Location |
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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