Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 7
They went to a house thatched with ti [9] leaves, a house built for the goddess.
Who acts: sisters, house · What happens: go, thatch, build · To what, where: house, 9 leaves
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 (sisters, house), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 house | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 6 | thatched | thatch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 house | acl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 ti | case |
| 8 | ti | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 thatched | obl |
| 9 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 10 9 | punct |
| 10 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 leaves | nummod |
| 11 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 10 9 | punct |
| 12 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 thatched | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 house | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 house | det |
| 15 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 leaves | conj |
| 16 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 house | acl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 goddess | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 goddess | det |
| 19 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 built | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | sisters = sister | a house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | thatch | participle | a house not said here | 9 leaves and a house | with ti = it | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with it=Theme | |||
| 3 | build | participle | a house not said here | for the goddess | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for goddess=Beneficiary |
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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