Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 3
Pele, as the high chiefess of the family, first entered the water and swam far out, then returned, standing on the brink of the curling wave, for the very crest was her surf-board which she rode with great skill.
Who acts: Pele, crest, surf board · What happens: enter, swim, return, stand, be, ride · To what, where: water, brink
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, crest, surf board), 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 | Pele | pele | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 entered | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 chiefess | punct |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 chiefess | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 chiefess | det |
| 5 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 chiefess | amod |
| 6 | chiefess | chiefess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pele | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 family | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 family | det |
| 9 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chiefess | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pele | punct |
| 11 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 entered | advmod |
| 12 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 water | det |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 entered | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 swam | cc |
| 16 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 entered | conj |
| 17 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 out | advmod |
| 18 | out | out | ADV | _ | 16 swam | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 returned | punct |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 returned | advmod |
| 21 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 entered | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 standing | punct |
| 23 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 returned | advcl |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 brink | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 brink | det |
| 26 | brink | brink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 standing | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 wave | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 wave | det |
| 29 | curling | curling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 wave | compound |
| 30 | wave | wave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 brink | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 board | punct |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 board | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 crest | det |
| 34 | very | very | ADV | _ | 35 crest | advmod |
| 35 | crest | crest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 board | nsubj |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 board | cop |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 board | nmod:poss |
| 38 | surf | surf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 board | compound |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 surf | punct |
| 40 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 standing | obl |
| 41 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 rode | nsubj |
| 42 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 rode | nsubj |
| 43 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 board | acl:relcl |
| 44 | with | with | ADP | _ | 46 skill | case |
| 45 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 skill | amod |
| 46 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 rode | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | Pele | the water | first property | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme water=Destination | |||
| 2 | swim | past | Pele not said here | out property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | return | past | Pele not said here | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | stand | gerund | Pele not said here | the brink of the curling wave | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on brink=Location | ||||
| 5 | is | past | the crest | for family's surf board; family nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | ride | past | family's surf board | with great skill; family nsubj | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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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