Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 114
Long as the lava-light Glares from the lava-lake, Dazing the starlight; Long as the silvery vapor in daylight, Over the mountain Floats, will the glory of Kapiolani be mingled with either on Hawa-i-ee.
Who acts: Kapiolani · What happens: daze, mingle, glory · To what, where: starlight, glory
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 (Kapiolani), 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 | Long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 Glares | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Glares | det |
| 4 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 light | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 lava | punct |
| 6 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Glares | compound |
| 7 | Glares | glare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Long | obl |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 lake | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lake | det |
| 10 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lake | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 lava | punct |
| 12 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Glares | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Dazing | punct |
| 14 | Dazing | daze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Long | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 starlight | det |
| 16 | starlight | starlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Dazing | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 vapor | punct |
| 18 | Long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 vapor | advmod |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 vapor | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 vapor | det |
| 21 | silvery | silvery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 vapor | amod |
| 22 | vapor | vapor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Long | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 daylight | case |
| 24 | daylight | daylight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 vapor | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 mountain | punct |
| 26 | Over | over | ADP | _ | 28 mountain | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 mountain | det |
| 28 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 vapor | conj |
| 29 | Floats | Float | PROPN | Number=Plur | 28 mountain | appos |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 mingled | punct |
| 31 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 mingled | aux |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 glory | det |
| 33 | glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 mingled | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 Kapiolani | case |
| 35 | Kapiolani | Kapiolani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 glory | nmod |
| 36 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 mingled | aux:pass |
| 37 | mingled | mingle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 vapor | conj |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 45 ee | case |
| 39 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 40 on | cc:preconj |
| 40 | on | on | ADP | _ | 45 ee | case |
| 41 | Hawa | Hawa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 ee | nsubj |
| 42 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 45 ee | punct |
| 43 | i | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 ee | nsubj |
| 44 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 45 ee | punct |
| 45 | ee | ee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 mingled | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | daze | gerund | the starlight | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus starlight=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | mingle | future · passive | the glory of Kapiolani | with ee Hawa i | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with ee=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | glory | Kapiolani | nom glory «state 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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