Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 203
Pele rejoiced over the skill of her younger sister and was surprised by the chanted reference to the experiences at Haena.
Who acts: Pele, chanted reference · What happens: rejoice, surprise, chant · To what, where: skill, Haena
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 (Pele, chanted reference), 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 | 2 rejoiced | nsubj |
| 2 | rejoiced | rejoice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | over | over | ADP | _ | 5 skill | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 skill | det |
| 5 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rejoiced | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 sister | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 sister | nmod:poss |
| 8 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 sister | amod |
| 9 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 skill | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 surprised | cc |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 surprised | aux:pass |
| 12 | surprised | surprise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 rejoiced | conj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 reference | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 reference | det |
| 15 | chanted | chant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 reference | amod |
| 16 | reference | reference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 surprised | obl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 experiences | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 experiences | det |
| 19 | experiences | experience | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 surprised | obl |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 Haena | case |
| 21 | Haena | Haena | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 surprised | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rejoiced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rejoice | past | Pele | the skill of friend's younger sister | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | surprise | past · passive | the chanted reference | Haena | to the experiences | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | chant | participle | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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