Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 77
He was thinking of her marvellous, restful beauty, as given in the ancient chant known as “Lei Mauna Loa.”
Who acts: Ka · What happens: think, give, know · To what, where: ancient chant · 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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thinking | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thinking | aux |
| 3 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 beauty | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 6 | marvellous | marvellous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 beauty | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 marvellous | punct |
| 8 | restful | restful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 beauty | amod |
| 9 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thinking | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 given | punct |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 given | mark |
| 12 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 thinking | ccomp |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 chant | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 chant | det |
| 15 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 chant | amod |
| 16 | chant | chant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 given | obl |
| 17 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 chant | acl |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 Loa | case |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 Loa | punct |
| 20 | Lei | Lei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Mauna | compound |
| 21 | Mauna | Mauna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Loa | compound |
| 22 | Loa | Loa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 known | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 given | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 thinking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past · progressive | Ka | of Lohiau's marvellous restful beauty | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | participle | the ancient chant | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | know | participle | the ancient chant not said here | as Mauna Loa | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as loa=Attribute |
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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