Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 25
Here she felt that her burning love could wait no longer and she must send for Lohiau.
Who acts: Pele, burning love · What happens: feel, burn, wait, send, love
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, burning love), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 felt | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 felt | nsubj |
| 3 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 wait | mark |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 love | nmod:poss |
| 6 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 love | amod |
| 7 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wait | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 wait | aux |
| 9 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 felt | ccomp |
| 10 | no | no | ADV | _ | 11 longer | advmod |
| 11 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 wait | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 send | cc |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 send | nsubj |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 send | aux |
| 15 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 wait | conj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 Lohiau | case |
| 17 | Lohiau | Lohiau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 send | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | Pele | here | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | burn | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | wait | could | Pele's burning love | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | send | must | Pele | for Lohiau | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | love | Pele | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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