Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 5
Again and again she went out to the deep pit of the waves, her sisters causing the country inland to resound with their acclamation, for she rode as one born of the sea.
Who acts: family, sisters · What happens: go out, cause, resound, ride, bear, acclaim · To what, where: country, one
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 (family, sisters), 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 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 again | cc |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 1 Again | conj |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 pit | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pit | det |
| 9 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 pit | amod |
| 10 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 waves | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 waves | det |
| 13 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 pit | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sisters | punct |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 16 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 waves | conj |
| 17 | causing | cause | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 sisters | acl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 country | det |
| 19 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 causing | obj |
| 20 | inland | inland | ADV | _ | 17 causing | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 resound | mark |
| 22 | resound | resound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 causing | advcl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 acclamation | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 acclamation | nmod:poss |
| 25 | acclamation | acclamation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 resound | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 rode | punct |
| 27 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 29 rode | mark |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 rode | nsubj |
| 29 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 30 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 born | mark |
| 31 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 born | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 rode | xcomp |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 sea | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 sea | det |
| 35 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 born | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | family | again; again | to the deep pit of the waves and family's sisters; out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | cause | gerund | family's sisters not said here | the country | inland property | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition country=Patient | |||
| 3 | resound | to-infinitive | family's sisters not said here | with sisters's acclamation | vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP.location V NP.theme»: agent=Location with acclamation=Theme | ||||
| 4 | ride | past | family | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | bear | participle · passive | one | of the sea | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 6 | acclaim | sisters = sister | nom acclamation «communication 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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