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Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Destruction of Kamehameha’s Fish-ponds, sentence 34

The prophet bowed his head for a time, then, looking up, said, “The anger of the god will cease when you offer sacrifice to her.”

Who acts: prophet, anger, you, god · What happens: bow, look up, say, cease, offer, anger · To what, where: head, sacrifice, anger · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Destruction of Kamehameha’s Fish-ponds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prophet, anger, you, god), 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

detnsubjnmod:possobjcasedetoblpunctadvmodpunctadvclcompound:prtpunctparataxispunctpunctdetnsubjcasedetnmodauxccompadvmodnsubjadvclobjcaseoblpunctpunctrootTheDETprophetNOUNbowedVERBhisPRONheadNOUNforADPaDETtimeNOUN,PUNCTthenADV,PUNCTlookingVERBupADP,PUNCTsaidVERB,PUNCT“PUNCTTheDETangerNOUNofADPtheDETgodNOUNwillAUXceaseVERBwhenADVyouPRONofferVERBsacrificeNOUNtoADPherPRON.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 prophetdet
2prophetprophetNOUNNumber=Sing3 bowednsubj
3bowedbowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs5 headnmod:poss
5headheadNOUNNumber=Sing3 bowedobj
6forforADP_8 timecase
7aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art8 timedet
8timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing3 bowedobl
9,,PUNCT_12 lookingpunct
10thenthenADVPronType=Dem12 lookingadvmod
11,,PUNCT_12 lookingpunct
12lookinglookVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part3 bowedadvcl
13upupADP_12 lookingcompound:prt
14,,PUNCT_15 saidpunct
15saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 bowedparataxis
16,,PUNCT_24 ceasepunct
17“"PUNCT_24 ceasepunct
18ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 angerdet
19angerangerNOUNNumber=Sing24 ceasensubj
20ofofADP_22 godcase
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 goddet
22godgodNOUNNumber=Sing19 angernmod
23willwillAUXVerbForm=Fin24 ceaseaux
24ceaseceaseVERBVerbForm=Inf15 saidccomp
25whenwhenADVPronType=Int27 offeradvmod
26youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs27 offernsubj
27offerofferVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin24 ceaseadvcl
28sacrificesacrificeNOUNNumber=Sing27 offerobj
29totoADP_30 hercase
30hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs27 offerobl
31..PUNCT_24 ceasepunct
32”"PUNCT_24 ceasepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1bowpastthe prophetgrove's headtimevn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic
2look upgerundthe prophet not said herethenvn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3say speech: assertpastvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4cease in a quotefuturethe anger of the godvn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5offer in a quotepresentyousacrificeangervn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent sacrifice=Theme to she=Goal
6anger in a quotethe godnom anger «feeling 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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