Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 54
I stand, I journey while you remain, O women with bowed heads.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: stand, journey, remain, bow
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 (I, you), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 stand | nsubj |
| 2 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 journey | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 journey | nsubj |
| 5 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stand | obl |
| 6 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 8 remain | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 remain | nsubj |
| 8 | remain | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 stand | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 women | punct |
| 10 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 11 women | case |
| 11 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 remain | obl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 heads | case |
| 13 | bowed | bow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 heads | amod |
| 14 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 women | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | I | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | journey | I | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | remain | present | you | of women with bowed heads | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bow | participle | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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