Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 26
The spirit of Pele arose from her body and listened to that voice.
Who acts: spirit · What happens: arise, listen · To what, where: body
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 (spirit), 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 | 2 spirit | det |
| 2 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arose | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Pele | case |
| 4 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 spirit | nmod |
| 5 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 body | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 body | nmod:poss |
| 8 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arose | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 listened | cc |
| 10 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 arose | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 voice | case |
| 12 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 voice | det |
| 13 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 listened | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | the spirit of Pele | spirit's body | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | listen | past | the spirit of Pele not said here | to that voice | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to voice=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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