Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 89
Turning to Pele, he offered himself as her husband and was accepted.
Who acts: thought · What happens: turn, offer, accept · To what, where: Pele, thought
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 (thought), 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 | Turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 offered | advcl |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 Pele | case |
| 3 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Turning | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Turning | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 offered | nsubj |
| 6 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 offered | obj |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 husband | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 husband | nmod:poss |
| 10 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 offered | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 accepted | cc |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 accepted | aux:pass |
| 13 | accepted | accept | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 offered | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 offered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | gerund | thought not said here | Pele | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to pele=Result | ||||
| 2 | offer | past | thought | thought | as queen's husband | vn volunteer-95.4 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent himself=Pivot as husband=Attribute | |||
| 3 | accept | past · passive | thought not said here | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP» |
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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