Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 150
Then as the winds died away and the last strong gust journeyed out toward the sea Pele heard Hiiaka’s voice calling from the island Hawaii in the magic chant Pele had told her to use to call her back to life.
Who acts: winds, last strong gust, voice, Pele, magic chant · What happens: die away, journey out, hear, call, tell, use · To what, where: last strong gust, sea, voice, island, magic chant, gust · 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 (winds, last strong gust, voice, Pele), 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 | 5 died | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 died | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 winds | det |
| 4 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 died | nsubj |
| 5 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 died | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 heard | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 gust | det |
| 9 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 gust | amod |
| 10 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 gust | amod |
| 11 | gust | gust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 heard | nsubj |
| 12 | journeyed | journey | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 gust | acl |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 journeyed | compound:prt |
| 14 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 16 sea | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sea | det |
| 16 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 journeyed | obl |
| 17 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 sea | appos |
| 18 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 died | conj |
| 19 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 voice | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 Hiiaka | case |
| 21 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 heard | obj |
| 22 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 heard | xcomp |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 island | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 island | det |
| 25 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 calling | obl |
| 26 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 island | appos |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 chant | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 chant | det |
| 29 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 chant | amod |
| 30 | chant | chant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 calling | obl |
| 31 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 told | nsubj |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 told | aux |
| 33 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 chant | acl:relcl |
| 34 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 told | iobj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 use | mark |
| 36 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 told | xcomp |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 call | mark |
| 38 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 use | advcl |
| 39 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 call | obj |
| 40 | back | back | ADV | _ | 38 call | advmod |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 life | case |
| 42 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 call | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die away | past | the winds | then | away property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 2 | journey out | participle | the last strong gust not said here | the sea | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward sea=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | the last strong gust | Hiiaka's voice | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | call | gerund | Hiiaka's voice not said here | the island | in the magic chant | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from island=Source | |||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect | Pele | the magic chant not said here | gust | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 6 | use not said to happen | to-infinitive | the magic chant not said here | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | call back speech: assert | to-infinitive | the magic chant not said here | gust | life | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Topic to life=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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