Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 155
Then she called the spirits of the many kinds of ferns of Pau-o-palae to take the body down.
Who acts: rainbow · What happens: call, take down · To what, where: spirits, body · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pili and Noho. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rainbow), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 called | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 called | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 spirits | det |
| 5 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 called | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 kinds | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 kinds | det |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 kinds | amod |
| 9 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 spirits | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 ferns | case |
| 11 | ferns | fern | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 kinds | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 palae | case |
| 13 | Pau | Pau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 palae | nsubj |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 palae | punct |
| 15 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 17 palae | case |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 o | punct |
| 17 | palae | palae | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ferns | nmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 take | mark |
| 19 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 called | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 body | det |
| 21 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 take | obj |
| 22 | down | down | ADP | _ | 19 take | compound:prt |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | rainbow | the spirits of the many kinds of ferns of palae Pau | then | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent spirit=Recipient | |||
| 2 | take down | to-infinitive | rainbow not said here | the body | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme |
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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