Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 91
Thus Hopoe was able to dance when the winds blew or the earth shook or some human hand touched her and disturbed her delicate poise.
Who acts: Hopoe, winds, earth, human hand · What happens: be, dance, blow, shake, touch, disturb · To what, where: earth, delicate poise
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, winds, earth, human hand), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 4 able | advmod |
| 2 | Hopoe | Hopoe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 able | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 able | cop |
| 4 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 dance | mark |
| 6 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 able | xcomp |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 blew | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 winds | det |
| 9 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 blew | nsubj |
| 10 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dance | advcl |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 shook | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 earth | det |
| 13 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shook | nsubj |
| 14 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 blew | conj |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 touched | cc |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 hand | det |
| 17 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 hand | amod |
| 18 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 touched | nsubj |
| 19 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 shook | conj |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 touched | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 disturbed | cc |
| 22 | disturbed | disturb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 touched | conj |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 poise | nmod:poss |
| 24 | delicate | delicate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 poise | amod |
| 25 | poise | poise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 disturbed | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Hopoe | able, thus property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dance | to-infinitive | Hopoe not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | blow | past | the winds | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | shake | past | the earth | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | touch | past | some human hand | earth | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Co-Theme | ||||
| 6 | disturb | past | some human hand not said here | earth's delicate poise | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus poise=Experiencer |
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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