Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 76
Then from that far-off island of Kauai she looked over her burning forest toward the sea and again chanted:
Who acts: off island · What happens: look, burn, chant
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 (off island), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 looked | advmod |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 3 that | case |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Then | obl |
| 4 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 island | advmod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 far | punct |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 island | compound:prt |
| 7 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 looked | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Kauai | case |
| 9 | Kauai | Kauai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 island | nmod |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 looked | nsubj |
| 11 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 forest | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 forest | nmod:poss |
| 14 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 forest | amod |
| 15 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 looked | obl |
| 16 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 18 sea | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sea | det |
| 18 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 looked | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 chanted | cc |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 21 chanted | advmod |
| 21 | chanted | chant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 looked | conj |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | off island of Kauai | then | toward the sea; over Kauai's burning forest; Kauai nsubj | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over forest=Theme | |||
| 2 | burn | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | chant | participle | off island of Kauai not said here | again | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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