Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 53
The people made a vacant space for the passage of this wonderful stranger, casting themselves on the ground before her.
Who acts: people, wonderful stranger · What happens: make, cast, pass · To what, where: vacant space, people, ground
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 (people, wonderful stranger), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 space | det |
| 5 | vacant | vacant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 space | amod |
| 6 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 passage | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 passage | det |
| 9 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 stranger | case |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 stranger | det |
| 12 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 stranger | amod |
| 13 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 passage | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 casting | punct |
| 15 | casting | cast | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 made | advcl |
| 16 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 casting | obj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 ground | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ground | det |
| 19 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 casting | obl |
| 20 | before | before | ADP | _ | 21 her | case |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 casting | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the people | a vacant space | for the passage of this wonderful stranger | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent space=Product for passage=Asset | |||
| 2 | cast | gerund | the people not said here | people | the ground | before multitude | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme on ground=Destination | ||
| 3 | pass | this wonderful stranger | nom passage «act intransitive»: of=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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