Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 211

One of the legends says that even while Lohiau and Hiiaka were embracing each other Pele ran up the hill and threw her arms around his feet and black lava congealed over them.

Who acts: One, Lohiau · What happens: say, embrace, run up, throw, congeal · To what, where: other Pele, hill, arms, feet, black lava · 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 (One, Lohiau), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 says	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 legends	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 legends	det
4	legends	legend	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 One	nmod
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 embracing	mark
7	even	even	ADV	_	13 embracing	advmod
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	13 embracing	mark
9	Lohiau	Lohiau	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 embracing	nsubj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Hiiaka	cc
11	Hiiaka	Hiiaka	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Lohiau	conj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 embracing	aux
13	embracing	embrace	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 ran	advcl
14	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	16 Pele	det
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Pele	amod
16	Pele	Pele	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 embracing	obj
17	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 says	ccomp
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 ran	compound:prt
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hill	det
20	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ran	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 threw	cc
22	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 ran	conj
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 arms	nmod:poss
24	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 threw	obj
25	around	around	ADP	_	27 feet	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 feet	nmod:poss
27	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 threw	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 lava	cc
29	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 lava	amod
30	lava	lava	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 feet	conj
31	congealed	congeal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 lava	acl
32	over	over	ADP	_	33 them	case
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 congealed	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	One of the legends				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	embrace	past · progressive	Lohiau and Hiiaka	each other Pele			vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pele=Co-Agent
3	run up	past		the hill			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hill=Trajectory
4	throw	past		Pele's arms	arm's feet and black lava		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent arm=Theme around foot=Destination
5	congeal	participle		black lava not said here		over feet = foot	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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🌲 Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 211

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Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 211