Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 83
Hopoe was the last object of Pele’s anger at her younger sister, but there was no escape.
Who acts: Hopoe, escape, Pele · What happens: be, anger · To what, where: last object
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 (Hopoe, escape, Pele), 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 | Hopoe | Hopoe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 object | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 object | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 object | det |
| 4 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 object | amod |
| 5 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 anger | case |
| 7 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 anger | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 Pele | case |
| 9 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 object | nmod |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 sister | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 sister | nmod:poss |
| 12 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 sister | amod |
| 13 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 anger | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 was | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 was | cc |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 was | expl |
| 17 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 object | parataxis |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 escape | det |
| 19 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 was | nsubj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 object | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Hopoe | the last object | of Pele's anger at Pele's younger sister | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | past | no escape | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | anger | Pele | at Pele's younger sister | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent at=obl |
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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