Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 93
When they came together, beautiful were the dances and sweet the voices of Lohiau and his aikane (closest friend).
Who acts: Pele · What happens: come together, be · To what, where: beautiful dances
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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 beautiful | punct |
| 6 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 dances | amod |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 dances | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dances | det |
| 9 | dances | dance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 came | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 voices | cc |
| 11 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 voices | amod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 voices | det |
| 13 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 dances | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Lohiau | case |
| 15 | Lohiau | Lohiau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 voices | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 aikane | cc |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 aikane | nmod:poss |
| 18 | aikane | aikane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Lohiau | conj |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 21 friend | punct |
| 20 | closest | close | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 friend | amod |
| 21 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 aikane | appos |
| 22 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 21 friend | punct |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come together | past | Pele | together property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the beautiful dances and the sweet voices of Lohiau and husband's aikane | the sweet voices of Lohiau and husband's aikane conj | tree rules |
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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