Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 238
Chagrined and full of self-blame, she told Wahine-omao how to restore happiness to her friend.
Who acts: Pele, Wahine omao · What happens: chagrin, tell, restore · To what, where: Wahine omao, happiness, friend · 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 (Pele, Wahine omao), 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 | Chagrined | chagrin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 told | ccomp |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 full | cc |
| 3 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Chagrined | conj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 blame | case |
| 5 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 blame | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 self | punct |
| 7 | blame | blame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 full | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Chagrined | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 told | nsubj |
| 10 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Wahine | Wahine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 omao | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Wahine | punct |
| 13 | omao | omao | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 told | obj |
| 14 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 restore | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 restore | mark |
| 16 | restore | restore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 told | xcomp |
| 17 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 restore | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 friend | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 friend | nmod:poss |
| 20 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 restore | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chagrin | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | Pele | Wahine omao | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent omao=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | restore not said to happen | to-infinitive | Wahine omao not said here | happiness | Pele's friend | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent happiness=Theme to friend=Recipient |
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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