Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 112
A people believing that Peelè the Goddess would wallow in fiery riot and revel On Kilauea, Dance in a fountain of flame with her devils or shake with her thunders and shatter her island, Rolling her anger Thro’ blasted valley and flowing forest in blood-red cataracts down to the sea!
Who acts: people, Peelè, anger, goddess · What happens: believe, wallow, shake, shatter, roll, blast · To what, where: fiery riot, island, valley, forest, red cataracts, 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, Peelè, anger, goddess), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | believing | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 people | acl |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 wallow | mark |
| 5 | Peelè | Peelè | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 wallow | nsubj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Goddess | det |
| 7 | Goddess | Goddess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Peelè | appos |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 wallow | aux |
| 9 | wallow | wallow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 believing | ccomp |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 riot | case |
| 11 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 riot | amod |
| 12 | riot | riot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wallow | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 revel | cc |
| 14 | revel | revel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 riot | conj |
| 15 | On | on | ADP | _ | 16 Kilauea | case |
| 16 | Kilauea | Kilauea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 riot | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Dance | punct |
| 18 | Dance | Dance | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Kilauea | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 fountain | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 fountain | det |
| 21 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wallow | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 flame | case |
| 23 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fountain | nmod |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 devils | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 devils | nmod:poss |
| 26 | devils | devil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 fountain | nmod |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 shake | cc |
| 28 | shake | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 wallow | conj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 thunders | case |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 thunders | nmod:poss |
| 31 | thunders | thunder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 shake | obl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 shatter | cc |
| 33 | shatter | shatter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 shake | conj |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 island | nmod:poss |
| 35 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 shatter | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 Rolling | punct |
| 37 | Rolling | roll | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 shatter | advcl |
| 38 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 anger | nmod:poss |
| 39 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 blasted | nsubj |
| 40 | Thro | Thro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 anger | appos |
| 41 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 40 Thro | punct |
| 42 | blasted | blast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 Rolling | ccomp |
| 43 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 blasted | obj |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 flowing | cc |
| 45 | flowing | flow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 37 Rolling | conj |
| 46 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 flowing | obj |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 51 cataracts | case |
| 48 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 red | compound |
| 49 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 48 blood | punct |
| 50 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 cataracts | amod |
| 51 | cataracts | cataract | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 flowing | obl |
| 52 | down | down | ADV | _ | 45 flowing | advmod |
| 53 | to | to | ADP | _ | 55 sea | case |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 sea | det |
| 55 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 down | obl |
| 56 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 people | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | gerund | a people not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | wallow | would | Peelè | fiery riot on Kilauea and Dance and revel | in a fountain of flame with goddess's devils | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | shake | infinitive | Peelè not said here | with goddess's thunders | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with thunder=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | shatter | infinitive | Peelè not said here | goddess's island | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Patient | ||||
| 5 | roll | gerund | Peelè not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | blast | past | goddess's anger | valley | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location valley=Theme | ||||
| 7 | flow | gerund | Peelè not said here | forest | red cataracts | down property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location forest=Theme | ||
| 9 | thunder | goddess | nom thunder «event intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 10 | anger | goddess | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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