Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 189
Even while she was bringing Lohiau back to life, her love for her own home revealed to her the fires kindled by Pele, and she chanted many songs of complaint against her unfaithful sister.
Who acts: Hiiaka, love, fires, complaint · What happens: bring, reveal, kindle, chant, love, sing · To what, where: Lohiau, Hiiaka, many songs
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 (Hiiaka, love, fires, complaint), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 5 bringing | advmod |
| 2 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 bringing | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bringing | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bringing | aux |
| 5 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 revealed | advcl |
| 6 | Lohiau | Lohiau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 bringing | obj |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 bringing | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 life | case |
| 9 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 back | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 love | punct |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 love | nmod:poss |
| 12 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 revealed | nsubj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 home | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 home | nmod:poss |
| 15 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 home | amod |
| 16 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 love | nmod |
| 17 | revealed | reveal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 her | case |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 revealed | obl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 fires | det |
| 21 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 kindled | nsubj |
| 22 | kindled | kindle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 revealed | conj |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 Pele | case |
| 24 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 kindled | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 chanted | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 chanted | cc |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 chanted | nsubj |
| 28 | chanted | chant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 revealed | conj |
| 29 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 songs | amod |
| 30 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 chanted | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 complaint | case |
| 32 | complaint | complaint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 songs | nmod |
| 33 | against | against | ADP | _ | 36 sister | case |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 sister | nmod:poss |
| 35 | unfaithful | unfaithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 sister | amod |
| 36 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 chanted | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 revealed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · progressive | Hiiaka | Lohiau | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument lohiau=Destination | ||||
| 2 | reveal | past | Hiiaka's love for Hiiaka's own home | Hiiaka | vn confess-37.10 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | kindle | past | the fires | by Pele | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | chant | past | Hiiaka | many songs of complaint | against Hiiaka's unfaithful sister | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Topic | |||
| 5 | love | Hiiaka | for Hiiaka's own home | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent for=obl | |||||
| 6 | sing | complaint | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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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