Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 25
While Pele was sleeping her spirit heard the sound of a hula-drum skilfully played, accompanied by a chant sung by a wonderful voice.
Who acts: Pele, sound · What happens: sleep, hear, play, accompany, sing · To what, where: spirit, chant · 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 (Pele, sound), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 sleeping | mark |
| 2 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sleeping | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sleeping | aux |
| 4 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 heard | advcl |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 spirit | nmod:poss |
| 6 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sleeping | obj |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sound | det |
| 9 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 played | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 drum | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 drum | det |
| 12 | hula | hula | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 drum | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 hula | punct |
| 14 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sound | nmod |
| 15 | skilfully | skilfully | ADV | _ | 16 played | advmod |
| 16 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 heard | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 accompanied | punct |
| 18 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 played | advcl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 chant | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 chant | det |
| 21 | chant | chant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 accompanied | obl |
| 22 | sung | sing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 chant | acl |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 voice | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 voice | det |
| 25 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 voice | amod |
| 26 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sung | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | past · progressive | Pele | woman's spirit | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | play | past | the sound of a hula drum | skilfully property | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | accompany | participle | the sound of a hula drum not said here | by a chant | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by chant=Destination | ||||
| 5 | sing speech: express | participle | a chant not said here | by a wonderful voice | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by voice=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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