Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 179
The spirit of Pele heard the wind, Naue, passing down to the sea and soon came the call of Hiiaka over the waters.
Who acts: spirit · What happens: hear, pass down, come, call · To what, where: wind, sea, call, waters, Hiiaka · 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 (spirit), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 spirit | det |
| 2 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Pele | case |
| 4 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 spirit | nmod |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wind | det |
| 7 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Naue | punct |
| 9 | Naue | Naue | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 wind | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 passing | punct |
| 11 | passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 heard | advcl |
| 12 | down | down | ADV | _ | 11 passing | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 sea | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sea | det |
| 15 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 passing | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 came | cc |
| 17 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 came | advmod |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 call | det |
| 20 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Hiiaka | case |
| 22 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 call | nmod |
| 23 | over | over | ADP | _ | 25 waters | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 waters | det |
| 25 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 came | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the spirit of Pele | the wind | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer wind=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | pass down | gerund | the spirit of Pele not said here | the sea | down property | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sea=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | come | past | the spirit of Pele not said here | the call of Hiiaka | the waters | soon property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location call=Theme | ||
| 4 | call | Hiiaka | nom call «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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