Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 88
There Pele’s fires caught her but did not devour her.
Who acts: fires, Pele · What happens: catch, not devour, fire · To what, where: torrent
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 (fires, 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 caught | expl |
| 2 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 fires | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 Pele | case |
| 4 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 caught | nsubj |
| 5 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 caught | obj |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 devour | cc |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 devour | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 devour | advmod |
| 10 | devour | devour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 caught | conj |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 devour | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | Pele's fires | torrent | there | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 2 | not devour | past · do-support | Pele's fires not said here | torrent | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 3 | fire | Pele | nom fire «event transitive»: poss=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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