Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 16
Then Pele added: “Perhaps this sleep will be my journey to meet a man—our husband.
Who acts: Pele, sleep · What happens: add, be, meet · To what, where: journey, man · 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 (Pele, sleep), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 added | advmod |
| 2 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 added | nsubj |
| 3 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 added | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 journey | punct |
| 6 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 12 journey | advmod |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 sleep | det |
| 8 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 journey | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 journey | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 journey | cop |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 journey | nmod:poss |
| 12 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 added | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 meet | mark |
| 14 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 journey | acl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 meet | obj |
| 17 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 husband | punct |
| 18 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 husband | nmod:poss |
| 19 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 man | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 added | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | past | Pele | then | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | future | this sleep | my journey | my nmod:poss; perhaps property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | meet in a quote | to-infinitive | Pele not said here | a man and our husband | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-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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