Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 201
The hula-lea danced by the wife, Dancing with the sea of Nanahuki.
What happens: dance · To what, where: hula lea
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 | 4 lea | det |
| 2 | hula | hula | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lea | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 hula | punct |
| 4 | lea | lea | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | danced | dance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 lea | acl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 wife | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wife | det |
| 8 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 danced | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Dancing | punct |
| 10 | Dancing | dance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 danced | advcl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 sea | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sea | det |
| 13 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Dancing | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Nanahuki | case |
| 15 | Nanahuki | Nanahuki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 sea | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lea | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | participle | the hula lea not said here | by the wife | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by wife=Location | ||||
| 2 | dance | gerund | with the sea of Nanahuki | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «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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