Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 187
At last she had yielded to her jealous rage and destroyed Hopoe and her home and then burned the loved spots of restful beauty belonging to Hiiaka.
Who acts: restful beauty, Pele · What happens: yield, destroy, burn, love, belong, rage · To what, where: Pele, last, Hopoe, loved spots, Hiiaka
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 (restful beauty, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 yielded | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 yielded | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 yielded | aux |
| 5 | yielded | yield | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 rage | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 rage | nmod:poss |
| 8 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 rage | amod |
| 9 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 yielded | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 destroyed | cc |
| 11 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 yielded | conj |
| 12 | Hopoe | Hopoe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 destroyed | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 home | cc |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 home | nmod:poss |
| 15 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Hopoe | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 burned | cc |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 burned | advmod |
| 18 | burned | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 destroyed | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 spots | det |
| 20 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 spots | amod |
| 21 | spots | spot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 burned | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 beauty | case |
| 23 | restful | restful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 beauty | amod |
| 24 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 spots | nmod |
| 25 | belonging | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 beauty | acl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 Hiiaka | case |
| 27 | Hiiaka | Hiiaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 belonging | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 yielded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yield | past · perfect · passive | Pele | last | to Pele's jealous rage goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme to rage=Goal | |||
| 2 | destroy | past | Hopoe and Pele's home | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hopoe=Patient | |||||
| 3 | burn | past | the loved spots of restful beauty | then | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent spot=Theme | ||||
| 4 | love | participle | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | belong | gerund | restful beauty not said here | Hiiaka | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | rage | Pele | nom rage «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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