Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 6
At last she came to the beach and, telling the sisters that the tabu on swimming was lifted, and they could enter upon their sport, went inland with her youngest sister, Hiiaka, to watch while she slept.
Who acts: family, sisters, telling · What happens: come, tell, lift, enter, go, watch · To what, where: last, sisters, tabu · 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 (family, sisters, telling), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 came | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 beach | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 beach | det |
| 7 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 went | cc |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 and | punct |
| 10 | telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 went | csubj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sisters | det |
| 12 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 telling | obj |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 lifted | obj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tabu | det |
| 15 | tabu | tabu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lifted | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 swimming | case |
| 17 | swimming | swimming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tabu | nmod |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 lifted | aux:pass |
| 19 | lifted | lift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 sisters | acl:relcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 enter | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 enter | cc |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 enter | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 enter | aux |
| 24 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 telling | advcl |
| 25 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 27 sport | case |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 sport | nmod:poss |
| 27 | sport | sport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 enter | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 telling | punct |
| 29 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 30 | inland | inland | ADV | _ | 29 went | advmod |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 sister | case |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 sister | nmod:poss |
| 33 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 34 sister | amod |
| 34 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 went | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 Hiiaka | punct |
| 36 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 sister | appos |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 watch | punct |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 watch | mark |
| 39 | watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 29 went | parataxis |
| 40 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 42 slept | mark |
| 41 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 slept | nsubj |
| 42 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 watch | advcl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | family | last | to the beach | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to beach=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | gerund | the sisters | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | lift | past · passive | the tabu on swimming | the sisters obj | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme that=Destination | ||||
| 4 | enter | could | sisters = sister | upon sisters's sport | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | go | past | telling | with family's youngest sister; inland property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with sister=Beneficiary | ||||
| 6 | watch | to-infinitive | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | sleep | past | family | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | sport | sisters = sister | nom sport «act intransitive»: 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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