Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 185

I will return to my land—to the fragrant blossoms of the hala, but I will send one of my younger sisters to come after you.

Who acts: I · What happens: return, send, come · To what, where: land, one

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), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 return	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 return	aux
3	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 land	case
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 land	nmod:poss
6	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 return	obl
7	—	-	PUNCT	_	11 blossoms	punct
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 blossoms	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 blossoms	det
10	fragrant	fragrant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 blossoms	amod
11	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 return	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 hala	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hala	det
14	hala	hala	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 blossoms	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 send	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 send	cc
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 send	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 send	aux
19	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 return	conj
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 send	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 sisters	case
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 sisters	nmod:poss
23	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 sisters	amod
24	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 one	nmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 come	mark
26	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 send	advcl
27	after	after	ADP	_	28 you	case
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 come	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 return	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	future	I		my land		to the fragrant blossoms of the hala	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to land=Initial_Location to blossom=Destination
2	send	future	I	one of my younger sisters				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
3	come	to-infinitive	I not said here			after you		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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🌲 Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 185

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 185