Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 188
Then the queen of fire ceased speaking and began to be lost to Lohiau, who was marvelling greatly at the fading away of his loved one.
Who acts: queen, Lohiau · What happens: cease, speak, begin, lose, marvell · To what, where: Lohiau, fading · 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 (queen, Lohiau), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 ceased | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 queen | det |
| 3 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ceased | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 fire | case |
| 5 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 queen | nmod |
| 6 | ceased | cease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 ceased | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 began | cc |
| 9 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ceased | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 lost | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 lost | aux:pass |
| 12 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 began | xcomp |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Lohiau | case |
| 14 | Lohiau | Lohiau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 lost | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 marvelling | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 marvelling | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 marvelling | aux |
| 18 | marvelling | marvell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 Lohiau | conj |
| 19 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 18 marvelling | advmod |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 fading | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 fading | det |
| 22 | fading | fading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 marvelling | obl |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 marvelling | advmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 one | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 one | nmod:poss |
| 26 | loved | loved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 one | amod |
| 27 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 away | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ceased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cease | past | the queen of fire | then | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | gerund | the queen of fire not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | begin | past | the queen of fire not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | lose | to-infinitive · passive | the queen of fire not said here | Lohiau | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V» | ||||
| 5 | marvell | past · progressive | Lohiau | the fading | away, greatly property | tree rules |
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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