Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 149
The days were almost through to the last moment when Lohiau lamented the evil which his land had felt.
Who acts: days, Lohiau · What happens: be, lament, feel · To what, where: evil, land
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 (days, Lohiau), 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 days | det |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 moment | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 moment | cop |
| 4 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 5 through | advmod |
| 5 | through | through | ADV | _ | 9 moment | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 moment | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 moment | det |
| 8 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 moment | amod |
| 9 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 lamented | advmod |
| 11 | Lohiau | Lohiau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 lamented | nsubj |
| 12 | lamented | lament | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 moment | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 evil | det |
| 14 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lamented | obj |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 felt | obj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 land | nmod:poss |
| 17 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 felt | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 felt | aux |
| 19 | felt | feel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 evil | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 moment | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the days | to the last moment | through property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | lament | past | Lohiau | the evil | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer evil=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | feel | past · perfect · passive | life's land | the evil obj | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme which=Eventuality |
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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