Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 84
The sunrise mist lying on the grass, Free from the care of the strong wind.
Who acts: sunrise mist, strong wind · What happens: lie, care · To what, where: grass
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 (sunrise mist, strong wind), 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 | 3 mist | det |
| 2 | sunrise | sunrise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mist | amod |
| 3 | mist | mist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Free | nsubj |
| 4 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 mist | acl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 grass | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 grass | det |
| 7 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lying | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Free | punct |
| 9 | Free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 care | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 care | det |
| 12 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Free | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 wind | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wind | det |
| 15 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 wind | amod |
| 16 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 care | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 Free | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | gerund | the sunrise mist not said here | the grass | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on grass=Location | ||||
| 3 | care | the strong wind | nom care «act intransitive»: of=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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