Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 9
“I will sleep, giving up to the shadows of the falling evening—dropping into the very depths of slumber.
Who acts: Pele · What happens: sleep, give up, fall, drop, shadow · To what, where: shadows, depths, falling evening
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 (Pele), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sleep | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 sleep | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 sleep | aux |
| 4 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 giving | punct |
| 6 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 sleep | advcl |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 giving | compound:prt |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 shadows | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 shadows | det |
| 10 | shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 giving | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 evening | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 evening | det |
| 13 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 evening | amod |
| 14 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shadows | nmod |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 dropping | punct |
| 16 | dropping | drop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 giving | conj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 depths | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 depths | det |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 depths | advmod |
| 20 | depths | depth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 dropping | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 slumber | case |
| 22 | slumber | slumber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 depths | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sleep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep in a quote | future | Pele | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | give up in a quote | gerund | Pele not said here | the shadows of the falling evening | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to shadow=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | fall in a quote | gerund | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | drop in a quote | gerund | Pele not said here | the depths of slumber | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into depth=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | shadow in a quote | the falling evening | nom shadow «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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