Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 217
Lono-makua kindled fires all around Lohiau, but for a long time refrained from attacking him.
Who acts: Lono makua · What happens: kindle, refrain, attack · To what, where: fires, Lohiau, fire
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 (Lono makua), 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 | Lono | Lono | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 makua | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lono | punct |
| 3 | makua | makua | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kindled | nsubj |
| 4 | kindled | kindle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 kindled | obj |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 8 Lohiau | advmod |
| 7 | around | around | ADP | _ | 8 Lohiau | case |
| 8 | Lohiau | Lohiau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 fires | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 refrained | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 refrained | cc |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 time | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 time | det |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 time | amod |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 refrained | obl |
| 15 | refrained | refrain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 kindled | conj |
| 16 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 17 attacking | mark |
| 17 | attacking | attack | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 refrained | advcl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 attacking | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 kindled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kindle | past | Lono makua | fires | Lohiau | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fire=Patient | |||
| 2 | refrain | participle | Lono makua not said here | time | vn refrain-69 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | attack | gerund | Lono makua not said here | fire | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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