Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 186
Before I forsook my land for Kauai I put a charge upon my young sister to call me before nine days and nights had passed.
Who acts: I · What happens: forsake, put, call, pass · To what, where: land, charge, me, nine days · 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 (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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 3 forsook | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 forsook | nsubj |
| 3 | forsook | forsake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 put | advcl |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 land | nmod:poss |
| 5 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 forsook | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 Kauai | case |
| 7 | Kauai | Kauai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 forsook | obl |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 put | nsubj |
| 9 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 charge | det |
| 11 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | obj |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 sister | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 sister | nmod:poss |
| 14 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sister | amod |
| 15 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | obl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 call | mark |
| 17 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 put | advcl |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 call | obj |
| 19 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 25 passed | mark |
| 20 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 days | nummod |
| 21 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 nights | cc |
| 23 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 days | conj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 passed | aux |
| 25 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 call | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forsake | past | I | my land | for Kauai | tree rules | |||
| 2 | put | past | I | a charge | upon my young sister | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent charge=Theme upon sister=Destination | |||
| 3 | call | to-infinitive | I not said here | me | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | pass | past · perfect · passive | nine days and nights | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |
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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