Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 28
Then she clearly heard male voices, strong and tender, and a great joy awoke within her, and she listened toward the east, but the hula was not there.
Who acts: spirit, great joy, hula · What happens: hear, awake, listen, not be · To what, where: male voices
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, great joy, hula), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 4 heard | advmod |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | male | male | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 voices | amod |
| 6 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 heard | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 strong | punct |
| 8 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 voices | amod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 tender | cc |
| 10 | tender | tender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 strong | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 awoke | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 awoke | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 joy | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 joy | amod |
| 15 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 awoke | nsubj |
| 16 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 17 | within | within | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 awoke | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 listened | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 listened | cc |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 listened | nsubj |
| 22 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 23 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 25 east | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 east | det |
| 25 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 listened | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 there | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 there | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 hula | det |
| 29 | hula | hula | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 there | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 there | cop |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 there | advmod |
| 32 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 heard | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | spirit | male voices | then | clearly property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | awake | past | a great joy | within spirit | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | listen | past | spirit | toward the east | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent toward east=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not is | past | the hula | there property | tree rules |
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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