Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 154
Your care is to obey my law, which is upon you.
Who acts: care, law, Your · What happens: be, care
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 (care, law, Your), 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 care | nmod:poss |
| 2 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 obey | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 obey | cop |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 obey | mark |
| 5 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 law | nmod:poss |
| 7 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 obey | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 you | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 you | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 you | cop |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 you | case |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 law | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 obey | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Your care | my law obj; obey property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | my law | upon you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | care | Your | nom care «act intransitive»: 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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