Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 20
The perfume of the hala, [10] the fragrance of Keaau, clung to the walls of the house.
What happens: cling, perfume · To what, where: fragrance, 10, hala
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 perfume | det |
| 2 | perfume | perfume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 10 | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 hala | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hala | det |
| 5 | hala | hala | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 perfume | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 10 | punct |
| 7 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 8 10 | punct |
| 8 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 9 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 11 fragrance | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fragrance | det |
| 11 | fragrance | fragrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 10 | appos |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Keaau | case |
| 13 | Keaau | Keaau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 fragrance | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 clung | punct |
| 15 | clung | cling | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 fragrance | acl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 walls | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 walls | det |
| 18 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 clung | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 house | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 house | det |
| 21 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 walls | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 10 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cling | participle | the fragrance of Keaau not said here | to the walls of the house | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to wall=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | perfume | the hala | nom perfume «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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