Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 2
On a certain day there was a fine, clear atmosphere and Pele saw the splendid surf with its white crests and proposed to her sisters to go down for bathing and surf-riding.
Who acts: fine clear atmosphere, Pele · What happens: be, see, propose, go down · To what, where: splendid surf, sisters
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 (fine clear atmosphere, Pele), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 was | obl |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 was | expl |
| 6 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 atmosphere | det |
| 8 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 atmosphere | amod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fine | punct |
| 10 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 atmosphere | amod |
| 11 | atmosphere | atmosphere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 was | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 saw | cc |
| 13 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | nsubj |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 atmosphere | acl:relcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 surf | det |
| 16 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 surf | amod |
| 17 | surf | surf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 crests | case |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 crests | nmod:poss |
| 20 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 crests | amod |
| 21 | crests | crest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 surf | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 proposed | cc |
| 23 | proposed | propose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 saw | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 sisters | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 26 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 proposed | obl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 go | mark |
| 28 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 proposed | advcl |
| 29 | down | down | ADV | _ | 28 go | advmod |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 bathing | case |
| 31 | bathing | bathing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 go | obl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 riding | cc |
| 33 | surf | surf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 riding | compound |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 surf | punct |
| 35 | riding | riding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 bathing | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a fine clear atmosphere | there | day | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | past | Pele | the splendid surf | with atmosphere's white crests | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer surf=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | propose | participle | Pele not said here | family's sisters | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to sister=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | go down | to-infinitive | Pele not said here | for bathing and surf riding; down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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