Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 58
Pele entered the long house, passed by the place of the drums, and seated herself on a resting-place of soft royal mats.
Who acts: Pele · What happens: enter, pass, seat · To what, where: long house, Silent, resting place
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), 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 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 entered | nsubj |
| 2 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 house | amod |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 entered | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 passed | punct |
| 7 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 house | acl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 place | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 place | det |
| 10 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 passed | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 drums | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 drums | det |
| 13 | drums | drum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 place | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 seated | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 seated | cc |
| 16 | seated | seat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 entered | conj |
| 17 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 seated | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 place | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 place | det |
| 20 | resting | resting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 place | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 resting | punct |
| 22 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 seated | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 mats | case |
| 24 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 mats | amod |
| 25 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 mats | amod |
| 26 | mats | mat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 place | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | Pele | the long house | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Destination | ||||
| 2 | pass | participle | the long house not said here | by the place of the drums | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by place=Location | ||||
| 3 | seat | past | Pele not said here | Silent | a resting place of soft royal mats | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location herself=Value |
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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