Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 24
At last she determined to visit Ailaau, the god residing in Kilauea, but he had fled from her and she had taken his place and found a home in the earthquake-shaken pit of molten lava, leaping fire, and overwhelming sulphur smoke.
Who acts: Pele, god, Ailaau · What happens: determine, visit, reside, flee, take, find · To what, where: last, Ailaau, Kilauea, place, home, shaken pit
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, god, Ailaau), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 determined | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 determined | nsubj |
| 4 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 visit | mark |
| 6 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 determined | xcomp |
| 7 | Ailaau | Ailaau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 visit | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 god | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 god | det |
| 10 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Ailaau | appos |
| 11 | residing | reside | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 god | acl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Kilauea | case |
| 13 | Kilauea | Kilauea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 residing | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fled | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 fled | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 fled | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 fled | aux |
| 18 | fled | flee | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 determined | conj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 her | case |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 fled | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 taken | cc |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 taken | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 taken | aux |
| 24 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 fled | conj |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 place | nmod:poss |
| 26 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 taken | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 found | cc |
| 28 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 taken | conj |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 home | det |
| 30 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 found | obj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 pit | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 pit | det |
| 33 | earthquake | earthquake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 shaken | compound |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 earthquake | punct |
| 35 | shaken | shake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 pit | amod |
| 36 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 found | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 lava | case |
| 38 | molten | molten | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 lava | amod |
| 39 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 pit | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 leaping | punct |
| 41 | leaping | leap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 found | advcl |
| 42 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 leaping | obj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 smoke | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 smoke | cc |
| 45 | overwhelming | overwhelming | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 smoke | amod |
| 46 | sulphur | sulphur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 smoke | compound |
| 47 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 taken | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 determined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | past | Pele | last | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | visit | to-infinitive | Pele not said here | Ailaau | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ailaau=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | reside | gerund | the god not said here | Kilauea | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in kilauea=Location | ||||
| 4 | flee | past · perfect | Ailaau | from Pele | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from she=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | take | past · perfect | Pele | Ailaau's place | overwhelming sulphur smoke obl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | |||
| 6 | find | past | Pele not said here | a home | the shaken pit of molten lava | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Topic | |||
| 7 | shake | participle | earthquake compound | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 8 | leap | gerund | Pele not said here | fire | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fire=Trajectory |
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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