Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 148
When Pele had laid herself down on the soft mats of Puna for her long sleep she had charged her little sister, who had been carried in her bosom, to wake her if she had not returned to life before nine days were past.
Who acts: Pele, land · What happens: lay down, charge, carry, wake, not return, be · To what, where: land, soft mats, little sister, bosom
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 (Pele, land), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 laid | mark |
| 2 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 laid | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 laid | aux |
| 4 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 charged | advcl |
| 5 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 laid | obj |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 laid | compound:prt |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 mats | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mats | det |
| 9 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 mats | amod |
| 10 | mats | mat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 laid | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Puna | case |
| 12 | Puna | Puna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 mats | nmod |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 sleep | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 sleep | nmod:poss |
| 15 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sleep | amod |
| 16 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 charged | obl |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 charged | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 charged | aux |
| 19 | charged | charge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 sister | nmod:poss |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 sister | amod |
| 22 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 charged | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 carried | punct |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 carried | aux |
| 26 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 carried | aux:pass |
| 27 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 sister | acl:relcl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 bosom | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 bosom | nmod:poss |
| 30 | bosom | bosom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 carried | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 wake | punct |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 wake | mark |
| 33 | wake | wake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 charged | conj |
| 34 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 wake | obj |
| 35 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 39 returned | mark |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 returned | nsubj |
| 37 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 returned | aux |
| 38 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 39 returned | advmod |
| 39 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 33 wake | advcl |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 life | case |
| 41 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 returned | obl |
| 42 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 46 past | mark |
| 43 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 44 days | nummod |
| 44 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 past | obl:unmarked |
| 45 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 past | cop |
| 46 | past | past | ADV | _ | 39 returned | advcl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 charged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay down | past · perfect | Pele | land | the soft mats of Puna | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent herself=Theme on mat=Destination | |||
| 2 | charge | past · perfect · passive | land | for land's long sleep; land's little sister obl | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Patient for sleep=Theme | ||||
| 3 | carry | past · perfect · passive | land's little sister | land's bosom | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in bosom=Location | ||||
| 4 | wake | to-infinitive | land | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient | |||||
| 5 | not return a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | land | to life result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to life=Result | ||||
| 6 | is | past | land not said here | day | past property | tree rules | |||
| 7 | sleep | land | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | bosom | land | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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