Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 17
If I shall meet my lover in my dreams the sleep will be of great value.
Who acts: I, sleep, my · What happens: meet, be, dream · To what, where: lover, dreams
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, sleep, my), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 meet | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 meet | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 meet | aux |
| 4 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 lover | nmod:poss |
| 6 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 meet | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 dreams | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 dreams | nmod:poss |
| 9 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 meet | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sleep | det |
| 11 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 value | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 value | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 value | cop |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 value | case |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 value | amod |
| 16 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dreams | acl:relcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 meet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | shall | I | my lover | my dreams | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lover=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | is | future | the sleep | my dreams not said here | of great value | tree rules | |||
| 3 | dream | my | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=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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