Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 15
Then call me and chant the ‘Hulihia’” (a chant supposed to bring life back and revive the body).
Who acts: you · What happens: call, chant, suppose, bring back, revive · To what, where: me, Hulihia, chant, life, body · 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 (you), 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 | 2 call | advmod |
| 2 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 call | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 chant | cc |
| 5 | chant | chant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 call | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Hulihia | det |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 Hulihia | punct |
| 8 | Hulihia | Hulihia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 chant | obj |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 Hulihia | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Hulihia | punct |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 chant | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 chant | det |
| 13 | chant | chant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Hulihia | appos |
| 14 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 chant | acl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 bring | mark |
| 16 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 supposed | xcomp |
| 17 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bring | obj |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 16 bring | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 revive | cc |
| 20 | revive | revive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 bring | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 body | det |
| 22 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 revive | obj |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 chant | punct |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | me | then | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||
| 2 | chant | present | you not said here | the Hulihia | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hulihia=Topic | ||||
| 3 | suppose in a quote | participle | a chant not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | bring back in a quote | to-infinitive | life | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent life=Theme | |||||
| 5 | revive in a quote | infinitive | the body | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent body=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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