Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 37
She passed on from island to island until she came to Kauai, and there the drum-beat and the song of the dance did not die away or change, so she knew she had found the lover desired in her dream.
Who acts: spirit, drum beat, lover, dance · What happens: pass on, come, not die away, change, know, find · To what, where: island, Kauai, dream · 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 (spirit, drum beat, lover, dance), 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 | on | on | ADP | _ | 2 passed | compound:prt |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 island | case |
| 5 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 passed | obl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 island | case |
| 7 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 passed | obl |
| 8 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 10 came | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 passed | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Kauai | case |
| 12 | Kauai | Kauai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 die | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 die | cc |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 28 die | expl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 beat | det |
| 17 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 beat | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 drum | punct |
| 19 | beat | beat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 die | nsubj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 song | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 song | det |
| 22 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 beat | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 dance | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 dance | det |
| 25 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 song | nmod |
| 26 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 die | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 die | advmod |
| 28 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 passed | parataxis |
| 29 | away | away | ADV | _ | 28 die | advmod |
| 30 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 31 change | cc |
| 31 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 die | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 knew | punct |
| 33 | so | so | ADV | _ | 35 knew | advmod |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 knew | nsubj |
| 35 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 passed | parataxis |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 found | nsubj |
| 37 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 found | aux |
| 38 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 35 knew | ccomp |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 lover | det |
| 40 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 desired | nsubj |
| 41 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 found | ccomp |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 dream | case |
| 43 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 dream | nmod:poss |
| 44 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 desired | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass on | past | spirit | island | to island | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent from island=Initial_Location to island=Destination | |||
| 2 | come | past | spirit | Kauai | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to kauai=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | not die away | past · do-support | the drum beat and the song of the dance | there | away property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 4 | change | infinitive | the drum beat and the song of the dance not said here | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | know | past | spirit | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | find | past · perfect | spirit | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | desire | past | the lover | spirit's dream | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 8 | sing | the dance | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 9 | dream | spirit | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=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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