Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 6
The story of the jealousy and anger of Pele, which resulted in overwhelming Hopoe in a flood of lava and placing her in the form of a balanced rock to dance by the sea to the music of the eternally moving surf, is a story which must be kept on record for the lovers of Hawaiian folklore.
Who acts: jealousy, story, Pele, lava · What happens: result, place, balance, dance, move, be · To what, where: overwhelming Hopoe, Pele, form, story, record, balanced rock
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 (jealousy, story, Pele, lava), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 story | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 story | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 jealousy | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 jealousy | det |
| 5 | jealousy | jealousy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 story | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 anger | cc |
| 7 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 jealousy | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Pele | case |
| 9 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 anger | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 resulted | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 resulted | nsubj |
| 12 | resulted | result | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 jealousy | acl:relcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 Hopoe | case |
| 14 | overwhelming | overwhelming | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Hopoe | amod |
| 15 | Hopoe | Hopoe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 resulted | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 flood | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 flood | det |
| 18 | flood | flood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 resulted | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 lava | case |
| 20 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 flood | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 placing | cc |
| 22 | placing | place | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 flood | conj |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 placing | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 form | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 form | det |
| 26 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 placing | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 rock | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 rock | det |
| 29 | balanced | balance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 rock | amod |
| 30 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 form | nmod |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 dance | mark |
| 32 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 rock | acl |
| 33 | by | by | ADP | _ | 35 sea | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 sea | det |
| 35 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 dance | obl |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 music | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 music | det |
| 38 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 dance | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 surf | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 surf | det |
| 41 | eternally | eternally | ADV | _ | 42 moving | advmod |
| 42 | moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 43 surf | amod |
| 43 | surf | surf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 music | nmod |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 story | punct |
| 45 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 47 story | cop |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 story | det |
| 47 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 48 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 51 kept | obj |
| 49 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 51 kept | aux |
| 50 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 51 kept | aux:pass |
| 51 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 47 story | acl:relcl |
| 52 | on | on | ADP | _ | 53 record | case |
| 53 | record | record | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 kept | obl |
| 54 | for | for | ADP | _ | 56 lovers | case |
| 55 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 lovers | det |
| 56 | lovers | lover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 51 kept | obl |
| 57 | of | of | ADP | _ | 59 folklore | case |
| 58 | Hawaiian | hawaiian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 59 folklore | amod |
| 59 | folklore | folklore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 lovers | nmod |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 47 story | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | result | past | the jealousy and anger of Pele | overwhelming Hopoe | in a flood of lava | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hopoe=Location | |||
| 2 | place | gerund | the jealousy and anger of Pele not said here | Pele | the form of a balanced rock | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in form=Destination | |||
| 3 | balance | participle | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | dance | to-infinitive | the jealousy and anger of Pele not said here | by the sea; to the music of the moving surf | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by sea=Location | ||||
| 5 | move | gerund | eternally property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is a | present | the story of the jealousy and anger of Pele | a story | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | keep | must · passive | a story | record | for the lovers of Hawaiian folklore | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: which=Theme on record=Location | |||
| 8 | anger | Pele | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 9 | flood | lava | nom flood «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 10 | form | a balanced rock | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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