Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 33
She passed from place to place, led by the call of the drum and dance, following it along the palis (precipices) and over the deep ravines, through forest shadows and along rocky beaches until she came to the upper end of Hawaii.
Who acts: Keaau · What happens: pass, lead, follow, come, call · To what, where: place, drum, upper end · 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 (Keaau), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 passed | nsubj |
| 2 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 place | case |
| 4 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 passed | obl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 place | case |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 passed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 led | punct |
| 8 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 place | acl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 call | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 call | det |
| 11 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 led | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 drum | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 drum | det |
| 14 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 call | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 dance | cc |
| 16 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 drum | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 following | punct |
| 18 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 palis | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 following | obj |
| 20 | along | along | ADP | _ | 22 palis | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 palis | det |
| 22 | palis | palis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 passed | obl |
| 23 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 24 precipices | punct |
| 24 | precipices | precipice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 palis | appos |
| 25 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 24 precipices | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 ravines | cc |
| 27 | over | over | ADP | _ | 30 ravines | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 ravines | det |
| 29 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 ravines | amod |
| 30 | ravines | ravine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 palis | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 shadows | punct |
| 32 | through | through | ADP | _ | 34 shadows | case |
| 33 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 shadows | compound |
| 34 | shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 palis | conj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 beaches | cc |
| 36 | along | along | ADP | _ | 38 beaches | case |
| 37 | rocky | rocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 beaches | amod |
| 38 | beaches | beach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 shadows | conj |
| 39 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 41 came | mark |
| 40 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 came | nsubj |
| 41 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 passed | advcl |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 end | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 end | det |
| 44 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 end | amod |
| 45 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 came | obl |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 Hawaii | case |
| 47 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 end | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | Keaau | place | to place; follow the palis and the deep ravines and forest shadows and rocky beaches | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from place=Initial_Location to place=Destination | |||
| 2 | lead | participle | place not said here | by the call of the drum and dance | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by call=Destination | ||||
| 3 | follow | gerund | drum | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 4 | come | past | Keaau | to the upper end of Hawaii | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | call | the drum and dance | nom call «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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