Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 191
Soon she arose and told Hiiaka to call the sisters from the sea and they would go inland.
Who acts: spirit, sisters · What happens: arise, tell, call, go · To what, where: Hiiaka, sisters, sea · 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 (spirit, sisters), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 arose | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 arose | nsubj |
| 3 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 told | cc |
| 5 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 arose | conj |
| 6 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 told | iobj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 call | mark |
| 8 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 told | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sisters | det |
| 10 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 call | obj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 sea | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sea | det |
| 13 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 call | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 go | cc |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 go | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 go | aux |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 call | conj |
| 18 | inland | inland | ADV | _ | 17 go | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | spirit | soon property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | spirit not said here | Hiiaka | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent hiiaka=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | call not said to happen | to-infinitive | spirit not said here | the sisters | the sea | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent sister=Theme from sea=Source | |||
| 4 | go | would | sisters = sister | inland property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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