Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 181
When Lohiau saw the tears pouring down the face of his wife he asked why in this time of gladness she wept.
Who acts: Lohiau, tears, water · What happens: see, pour down, ask, weep · To what, where: tears, face
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 (Lohiau, tears, water), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | Lohiau | Lohiau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 asked | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tears | det |
| 5 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 saw | obj |
| 6 | pouring | pour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 tears | acl |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 face | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 face | det |
| 9 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pouring | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 wife | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wife | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 face | nmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 asked | nsubj |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 wept | advmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 time | case |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 time | det |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wept | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 gladness | case |
| 20 | gladness | gladness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 time | nmod |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 wept | nsubj |
| 22 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 asked | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Lohiau | the tears | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tear=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | pour down | gerund | the tears not said here | the face of water's wife | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | water | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | weep | past | Lohiau | time | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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