Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 172
The water of life runs, life is coming, Open with trembling, to let the spirit in, A noise rumbling, The sound of Ku.
Who acts: water, life, noise · What happens: run, come, let in, rumble · To what, where: spirit, sound
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 (water, life, noise), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 water | det |
| 2 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 runs | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 life | case |
| 4 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 water | nmod |
| 5 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 coming | punct |
| 7 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 coming | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 coming | aux |
| 9 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 runs | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Open | punct |
| 11 | Open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 coming | xcomp |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 trembling | case |
| 13 | trembling | trembling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Open | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 let | punct |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 let | mark |
| 16 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 runs | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 spirit | det |
| 18 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 let | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 let | compound:prt |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 rumbling | punct |
| 21 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 noise | det |
| 22 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 rumbling | nsubj |
| 23 | rumbling | rumble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 let | advcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 sound | punct |
| 25 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sound | det |
| 26 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 rumbling | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Ku | case |
| 28 | Ku | Ku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 sound | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 runs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | present | the water of life | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | present · progressive | life | open property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | let in | to-infinitive | the water of life not said here | the spirit | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=Theme | ||||
| 4 | rumble | gerund | a noise | the sound of Ku | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sound=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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