Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao, sentence 64
Pele called from the pit of fire, “O woman! have you seen two travellers?”
What happens: call, see · To what, where: Pele, pit · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, How Hiiaka Found Wahine-omao. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Pele | pele | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Pele | acl |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 pit | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pit | det |
| 5 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 called | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 fire | case |
| 7 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pit | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 woman | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 woman | punct |
| 10 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 11 woman | discourse |
| 11 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pit | appos |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 woman | punct |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 seen | aux |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 seen | nsubj |
| 15 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 travellers | nummod |
| 17 | travellers | traveller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 seen | obj |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 seen | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: ask | participle | Pele not said here | the pit of fire | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from pit=Source | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | present · perfect · passive | Pele | you nsubj; two travellers obj | 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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