Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 156
I will send my little sister, then come quickly to my home in Puna.”
Who acts: I · What happens: send, come · To what, where: little sister, home
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 send | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 send | aux |
| 3 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sister | nmod:poss |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sister | amod |
| 6 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 send | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 come | punct |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 come | advmod |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 send | conj |
| 10 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 9 come | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 home | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 home | nmod:poss |
| 13 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 come | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 Puna | case |
| 15 | Puna | Puna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 home | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 send | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | future | I | my little sister | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | infinitive | I not said here | my home in Puna | then | quickly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to home=Initial_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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