Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 99
Pele had told Lohiau of their coming and had charged him in these words: “Remember, you have been set apart for me.
Who acts: Pele · What happens: tell, come, charge, remember, set apart · To what, where: Lohiau, beauty, words · 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 (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 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 told | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | aux |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | Lohiau | Lohiau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 coming | mark |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 coming | nsubj |
| 7 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 Lohiau | acl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 charged | cc |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 charged | aux |
| 10 | charged | charge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 told | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 charged | iobj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 words | case |
| 13 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 14 words | det |
| 14 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 charged | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 Remember | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Remember | punct |
| 17 | Remember | remember | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 set | punct |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 set | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 set | aux |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 set | aux:pass |
| 22 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 Remember | ccomp |
| 23 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 22 set | advmod |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 me | case |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 set | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect | Pele | Lohiau | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent lohiau=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | come | gerund | Pele | Lohiau not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lohiau=Theme | ||||
| 3 | charge | past · perfect | Pele not said here | beauty | this words | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location he=Theme | |||
| 4 | remember in a quote | infinitive | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | set apart in a quote | present · perfect · passive | Lohiau | for Pele; apart property | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Patient for i=Beneficiary |
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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