Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 145
Lohiau said to Pele: “How great indeed have been your true words telling the evil of this day.
Who acts: Lohiau, great true words · What happens: say, be, tell · To what, where: Pele, great true words, evil · 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 (Lohiau, great true words), 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 | Lohiau | Lohiau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 Pele | case |
| 4 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | obl |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 great | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 great | punct |
| 7 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 great | advmod |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 words | amod |
| 9 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 8 great | advmod |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 great | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 words | cop |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 words | nmod:poss |
| 13 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 words | amod |
| 14 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 said | obj |
| 15 | telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 words | acl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 evil | det |
| 17 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 telling | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 day | case |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 day | det |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 evil | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Lohiau | Pele | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to pele=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | participle | your great true words | your nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | gerund | your great true words not said here | the evil of this day | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent evil=Recipient |
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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