Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 76
Lohiau watched her while he partook of the feast with his chiefs, and she was resting on the couch of mats.
Who acts: Lohiau, Ka · What happens: watch, partake, rest · To what, where: home, couch
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 (Lohiau, Ka), 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 | Lohiau | Lohiau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 watched | nsubj |
| 2 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 watched | obj |
| 4 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 6 partook | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 partook | nsubj |
| 6 | partook | partake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 watched | advcl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 feast | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 feast | det |
| 9 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 partook | obl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 chiefs | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 chiefs | nmod:poss |
| 12 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 partook | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 resting | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 resting | cc |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 resting | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 resting | aux |
| 17 | resting | rest | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 watched | advcl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 couch | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 couch | det |
| 20 | couch | couch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 resting | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 mats | case |
| 22 | mats | mat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 couch | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 watched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past | Lohiau | home | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | partake | past | Ka | of the feast; with Ka's chiefs | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | rest | past · progressive | Lohiau | the couch of mats | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent on couch=Location |
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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