Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 59
The chiefs were astonished, and after a long time asked her if she came from the far-off sunrise of foreign lands.
Who acts: chiefs, Silent · What happens: be, ask, come · To what, where: Silent
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 (chiefs, Silent), 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 chiefs | det |
| 2 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 astonished | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 astonished | cop |
| 4 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 asked | cc |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 time | amod |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | obl |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 astonished | conj |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 asked | iobj |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 came | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 came | nsubj |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 asked | advcl |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 sunrise | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sunrise | det |
| 18 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 off | amod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 far | punct |
| 20 | off | off | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sunrise | compound |
| 21 | sunrise | sunrise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 lands | case |
| 23 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 lands | amod |
| 24 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 sunrise | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 astonished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the chiefs | astonished property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the chiefs not said here | Silent | time | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | |||
| 3 | come a condition, not said to happen | past | Silent | sunrise | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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