Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 81
“Puna is shaking in the wind, Shaking is the hala grove of Keaau, Tumbling are Haena and Hopoe, Moving is the land—moving is the sea.”
Who acts: Puna, Shaking, sea, land · What happens: shake, be, tumble, move · To what, where: wind, hala grove, Haena, land, sea · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Puna, Shaking, sea, land), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 shaking | punct |
| 2 | Puna | puna | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shaking | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 shaking | aux |
| 4 | shaking | shake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 land | csubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 wind | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wind | det |
| 7 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shaking | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 grove | punct |
| 9 | Shaking | Shaking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 grove | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 grove | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 grove | det |
| 12 | hala | hala | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 grove | compound |
| 13 | grove | grove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shaking | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Keaau | case |
| 15 | Keaau | Keaau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 grove | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Tumbling | punct |
| 17 | Tumbling | tumble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 shaking | conj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 Haena | cop |
| 19 | Haena | Haena | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Tumbling | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 Hopoe | cc |
| 21 | Hopoe | Hopoe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Haena | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Moving | punct |
| 23 | Moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 shaking | conj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 land | cop |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 land | det |
| 26 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 27 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 moving | punct |
| 28 | moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 sea | acl |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 sea | cop |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 sea | det |
| 31 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 land | acl:relcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 land | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 land | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake in a quote | present · progressive | Puna | the wind | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wind=Location | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | Shaking | the hala grove | of Keaau | tree rules | |||
| 3 | tumble in a quote | gerund | Puna not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | Haena and Hopoe | Hopoe conj | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | move in a quote | gerund | Puna not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | present | shaking | the land | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | move in a quote | gerund | the sea not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | is a in a quote | present | the land not said here | the sea | tree rules |
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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