Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 152
After a time she said to Lohiau: “It is not for me to remain here in pleasure with you.
Who acts: gust, head · What happens: say, not be, remain · To what, where: Lohiau, pleasure · 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 (gust, head), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Lohiau | case |
| 7 | Lohiau | Lohiau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 me | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 me | punct |
| 10 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 me | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 me | cop |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 me | advmod |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 me | case |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 said | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 remain | mark |
| 16 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 17 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 remain | advmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 pleasure | case |
| 19 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 remain | obl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 you | case |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 remain | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | gust | Lohiau | time | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to lohiau=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | not is in a quote | present | head | for gust | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | remain in a quote | to-infinitive | pleasure; here | with Lohiau | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pleasure=Location |
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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