Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 187
Now I hear this call and I must not abide by the great longing of your thought.”
Who acts: I, thought, your · What happens: hear, not abide, long, think · To what, where: call
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, thought, your), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 hear | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 hear | nsubj |
| 3 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 call | det |
| 5 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hear | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 abide | cc |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 abide | nsubj |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 abide | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 abide | advmod |
| 10 | abide | abide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hear | conj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 longing | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 longing | det |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 longing | amod |
| 14 | longing | longing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 abide | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 thought | case |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 thought | nmod:poss |
| 17 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 longing | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hear | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present | I | this call | now | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer call=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | not abide | must | I | by the great longing of your thought | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | long | your thought | nom longing «feeling intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 4 | think | your | nom thought «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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