Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 204
She granted permission to Hiiaka to remain by the sea with her friend Hopoe, bathing and surf-riding until a messenger should be sent to call her home to Kilauea.
Who acts: friend, messenger · What happens: grant, remain, send, call · To what, where: permission, Hiiaka, messenger, home, Kilauea · 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 (friend, messenger), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 granted | nsubj |
| 2 | granted | grant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 granted | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Hiiaka | case |
| 5 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 granted | obl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 remain | mark |
| 7 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 granted | advcl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 sea | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sea | det |
| 10 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 remain | obl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 friend | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 friend | nmod:poss |
| 13 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 remain | obl |
| 14 | Hopoe | Hopoe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 friend | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bathing | punct |
| 16 | bathing | bathing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 friend | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 riding | cc |
| 18 | surf | surf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 riding | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 surf | punct |
| 20 | riding | riding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 friend | conj |
| 21 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 26 sent | mark |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 messenger | det |
| 23 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 sent | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 sent | aux:pass |
| 26 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 remain | advcl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 call | mark |
| 28 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 sent | xcomp |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 home | nmod:poss |
| 30 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 call | obj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 Kilauea | case |
| 32 | Kilauea | Kilauea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 call | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 granted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grant | past | friend | permission | Hiiaka | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent permission=Theme to hiiaka=Goal | |||
| 2 | remain | to-infinitive | friend not said here | by the sea; with friend's friend and bathing and surf riding | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by sea=Location | ||||
| 3 | send | should · passive | a messenger | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | call | to-infinitive | a messenger not said here | friend's home | Kilauea | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent home=Topic to kilauea=Recipient |
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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