Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 9
There she had her long sleep in which she went to the island Kauai and found her lover Lohiau, whom she promised to send for that he might come to her home in the volcano Kilauea.
Who acts: Pele, Lohiau · What happens: have, go, find, promise, send, come · To what, where: long sleep, lover, volcano
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 (Pele, Lohiau), 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 | 3 had | expl |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sleep | nmod:poss |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sleep | amod |
| 6 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 which | case |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 went | obl |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sleep | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 island | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 island | det |
| 13 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 14 | Kauai | Kauai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 island | appos |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 found | cc |
| 16 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | conj |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 lover | nmod:poss |
| 18 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 found | obj |
| 19 | Lohiau | Lohiau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 lover | appos |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 promised | punct |
| 21 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 promised | obj |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 promised | nsubj |
| 23 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 lover | acl:relcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 send | mark |
| 25 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 promised | xcomp |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 that | case |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 send | obl |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 come | nsubj |
| 29 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 come | aux |
| 30 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 send | ccomp |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 home | case |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 home | nmod:poss |
| 33 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 come | obl |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 volcano | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 volcano | det |
| 36 | volcano | volcano | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 come | obl |
| 37 | Kilauea | Kilauea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 volcano | appos |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Pele | Pele's long sleep | there | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Patient | |||
| 2 | go | past | Pele | Pele's long sleep | to the island | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to island=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | find | past | Pele not said here | Pele's lover | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lover=Topic | ||||
| 4 | promise speech: promise | past | Pele | Pele's lover | vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent whom=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | send not said to happen | to-infinitive | Pele not said here | for that | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | come | might | Lohiau | the volcano | to Pele's home | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to home=Initial_Location | |||
| 7 | sleep | Pele | nom sleep «state intransitive»: 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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