Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 10

Pele called her sisters one by one and told them to go to Kauai, but they feared the uncertainty of Pele’s jealousy and wrath and refused to go.

Who acts: Pele, lovers · What happens: call, tell, go, fear, refuse, not go · To what, where: sisters, lovers, Kauai, uncertainty · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hopoe, the Dancing Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pele, lovers), 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	2 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 sisters	nmod:poss
4	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 called	obj
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 called	xcomp
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 one	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 one	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 told	cc
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 called	conj
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 told	iobj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 go	mark
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 told	xcomp
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 Kauai	case
14	Kauai	Kauai	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 go	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 feared	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 feared	cc
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 feared	nsubj
18	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 called	parataxis
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 uncertainty	det
20	uncertainty	uncertainty	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 feared	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 jealousy	case
22	Pele	Pele	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 jealousy	nmod:poss
23	’s	's	PART	_	22 Pele	case
24	jealousy	jealousy	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 uncertainty	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 wrath	cc
26	wrath	wrath	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 jealousy	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 refused	cc
28	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 feared	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 go	mark
30	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 refused	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	call speech: assert	past	Pele		Pele's sisters		one by one xcomp	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient
2	tell speech: assert	past	Pele not said here		lovers = lover			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
3	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	Pele not said here			Kauai		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to kauai=Initial_Location
4	fear	past	lovers = lover	the uncertainty of Pele's jealousy and wrath				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer uncertainty=Stimulus
5	refuse	past	lovers = lover not said here					vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	not go	to-infinitive	lovers = lover not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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🌲 Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 10

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 10