Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 159
It would call the wandering spirit back to its home, no matter where it might have gone.
Who acts: incantation · What happens: call, go · To what, where: wandering spirit · 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 (incantation), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 call | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 call | aux |
| 3 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 spirit | det |
| 5 | wandering | wandering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spirit | compound |
| 6 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 call | obj |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 call | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 home | case |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 home | nmod:poss |
| 10 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 back | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 matter | punct |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 matter | det |
| 13 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 call | parataxis |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 gone | advmod |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 gone | nsubj |
| 16 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 gone | aux |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 gone | aux |
| 18 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 matter | acl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | would | incantation | the wandering spirit | no matter parataxis | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent spirit=Recipient | |||
| 2 | go | might · perfect | incantation | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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