Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 155
Calm will take the place of the storm, the winds will be quiet, the sea will ebb peacefully, cascades will murmur on the mountain sides, and sweet flowers will be among the leaves.
Who acts: Calm, winds, sea, cascades, sweet flowers · What happens: take, be, ebb, murmur · To what, where: place, mountain sides
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 (Calm, winds, sea, cascades), 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 | Calm | calm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | aux |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 place | det |
| 5 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 storm | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 storm | det |
| 8 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 place | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 quiet | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 winds | det |
| 11 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 quiet | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 quiet | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 quiet | cop |
| 14 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 take | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ebb | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sea | det |
| 17 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ebb | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 ebb | aux |
| 19 | ebb | ebb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 quiet | conj |
| 20 | peacefully | peacefully | ADV | _ | 19 ebb | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 murmur | punct |
| 22 | cascades | cascade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 murmur | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 murmur | aux |
| 24 | murmur | murmur | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 ebb | conj |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 sides | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 sides | det |
| 27 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sides | compound |
| 28 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 murmur | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 leaves | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 leaves | cc |
| 31 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 flowers | amod |
| 32 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 leaves | nsubj |
| 33 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 leaves | aux |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 leaves | cop |
| 35 | among | among | ADP | _ | 37 leaves | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 leaves | det |
| 37 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 quiet | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | future | Calm | the place of the storm | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | future | the winds | quiet property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ebb | future | the sea | peacefully property | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | murmur speech: other | future | cascades | the mountain sides | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location | ||||
| 5 | is | future | sweet flowers | among the leaves | tree rules |
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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