Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 24
Always when any worshipper saw the group of sisters and Pele asleep in their midst they saw a weary old woman lying in the fire-bed in the great crater.
Who acts: worshipper, sisters, weary old woman · What happens: see, lie · To what, where: group, weary old woman, fire bed
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 (worshipper, sisters, weary old woman), 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 | Always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 saw | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 saw | advmod |
| 3 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 worshipper | det |
| 4 | worshipper | worshipper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 group | det |
| 7 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 sisters | case |
| 9 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 group | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 asleep | cc |
| 11 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 asleep | compound |
| 12 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 saw | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 midst | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 midst | nmod:poss |
| 15 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 asleep | obl |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 saw | nsubj |
| 17 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 midst | acl:relcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 woman | det |
| 19 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 woman | amod |
| 20 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 woman | amod |
| 21 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saw | obj |
| 22 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 woman | acl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 bed | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 bed | det |
| 25 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bed | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 fire | punct |
| 27 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lying | obl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 crater | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 crater | det |
| 30 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 crater | amod |
| 31 | crater | crater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lying | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | any worshipper | the group of sisters | always property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer group=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | see | past | sisters = sister | a weary old woman | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | lie | gerund | a weary old woman not said here | the fire bed | in the great crater | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location |
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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