Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 107
When from the terrors of Nature a people have fashion’d and worship a Spirit of Evil Blest be the Voice of the Teacher who calls to them, “Set yourselves free!”
Who acts: people, fashion, you, Teacher · What happens: have, ', worship, be, call, set · To what, where: fashion, terrors, Spirit, Voice, people · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Kapiolani and Pele. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, fashion, you, Teacher), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 have | mark |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 terrors | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 terrors | det |
| 4 | terrors | terror | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 have | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Nature | case |
| 6 | Nature | Nature | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 terrors | nmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 people | det |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 have | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 worship | advcl |
| 10 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | obj |
| 11 | ’d | ' | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 have | xcomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 worship | cc |
| 13 | worship | worship | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 Spirit | det |
| 15 | Spirit | Spirit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 worship | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Blest | case |
| 17 | Evil | Evil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Blest | compound |
| 18 | Blest | Blest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Spirit | nmod |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 Voice | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Voice | det |
| 21 | Voice | Voice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 worship | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Teacher | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Teacher | det |
| 24 | Teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Voice | nmod |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 calls | nsubj |
| 26 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 Teacher | acl:relcl |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 them | case |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 calls | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Set | punct |
| 30 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 Set | punct |
| 31 | Set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 calls | conj |
| 32 | yourselves | yourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 31 Set | obj |
| 33 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 Set | xcomp |
| 34 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 21 Voice | punct |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 worship | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a people | fashion | the terrors of Nature | tree rules | |||
| 2 | ' | participle | fashion not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | worship | imperative | you not said here | a Spirit of Evil Blest | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spirit=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is a | infinitive | the Voice | of the Teacher | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | call speech: express | present | the Teacher | people | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | set in a quote | infinitive | the Teacher not said here | people | free property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient yourselves=Result |
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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