Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 190
Pele’s spirit passed at once to the body lying in the house thatched with ti [13] leaves in Puna.
Who acts: spirit, lying · What happens: pass, lie, thatch, leave · To what, where: house, 13, Puna
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 (spirit, lying), 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 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 spirit | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 1 Pele | case |
| 3 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | nsubj |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 once | case |
| 6 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 passed | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 body | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 body | det |
| 9 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | obl |
| 10 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 leaves | csubj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 house | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 house | det |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lying | obl |
| 14 | thatched | thatch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 lying | xcomp |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 ti | case |
| 16 | ti | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 thatched | obl |
| 17 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 18 13 | punct |
| 18 | 13 | 13 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 thatched | obl |
| 19 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 18 13 | punct |
| 20 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 passed | parataxis |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 Puna | case |
| 22 | Puna | Puna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 leaves | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | Pele's spirit | to the body | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location | ||||
| 2 | lie | gerund | the house | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | thatch | participle | 13 | with ti = it | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | leave | present | lying | in Puna result | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in puna=Result |
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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