Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 181
Many, many days had passed since the fiery and impetuous Pele had sent her youngest sister after the lover Lohiau.
Who acts: fiery Pele · What happens: pass, send · To what, where: Many many days, youngest sister
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 (fiery Pele), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 days | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Many | punct |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 days | amod |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 passed | aux |
| 6 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 14 sent | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Pele | det |
| 9 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Pele | amod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 impetuous | cc |
| 11 | impetuous | impetuous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fiery | conj |
| 12 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 sent | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 sent | aux |
| 14 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 passed | advcl |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 sister | nmod:poss |
| 16 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 sister | amod |
| 17 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sent | iobj |
| 18 | after | after | ADP | _ | 20 lover | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 lover | det |
| 20 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sent | obl |
| 21 | Lohiau | Lohiau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 lover | appos |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past · perfect · passive | Many many days | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | |||||
| 2 | send | past · perfect | the fiery Pele | Pele's youngest sister | after the lover | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=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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