Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 161
This was a call carried by the spirit-power of the one who uttered it into far-away places to the very person for whom it was intended.
Who acts: This, one · What happens: be, carry, utter, intend · To what, where: call, power
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 (This, one), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 call | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 call | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 call | det |
| 4 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 call | acl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 power | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 power | det |
| 8 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 power | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 spirit | punct |
| 10 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carried | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 one | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 one | det |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 power | nmod |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 uttered | nsubj |
| 15 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 one | acl:relcl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 uttered | obj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 away | case |
| 18 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 away | advmod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 far | punct |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 uttered | advmod |
| 21 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 away | obl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 person | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 person | det |
| 24 | very | very | ADV | _ | 25 person | advmod |
| 25 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 places | nmod |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 whom | case |
| 27 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 person | nmod |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 intended | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 intended | aux:pass |
| 30 | intended | intend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 whom | acl:relcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | a call | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | carry | participle | a call not said here | by the spirit power of the one | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | utter speech: other | past | the one | power | away property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 4 | intend | past · passive | power | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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