Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 18
Ohelo [21] berries and strawberries growing on the brink of the crater were freely eaten and the lake of fire explored without even a thought of fear of the goddess.
Who acts: 21 berries · What happens: grow, eat, explore, think, fear · To what, where: brink, Ohelo, fire, fear, goddess
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 (21 berries), 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 | Ohelo | Ohelo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 eaten | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 5 berries | punct |
| 3 | 21 | 21 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 berries | nummod |
| 4 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 3 21 | punct |
| 5 | berries | berry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Ohelo | appos |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 strawberries | cc |
| 7 | strawberries | strawberry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 berries | conj |
| 8 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 berries | acl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 brink | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 brink | det |
| 11 | brink | brink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 growing | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 crater | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 crater | det |
| 14 | crater | crater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 brink | nmod |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 eaten | aux:pass |
| 16 | freely | freely | ADV | _ | 17 eaten | advmod |
| 17 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 lake | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 lake | det |
| 20 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 eaten | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 fire | case |
| 22 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lake | nmod |
| 23 | explored | explore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 fire | acl |
| 24 | without | without | ADP | _ | 27 thought | case |
| 25 | even | even | ADV | _ | 27 thought | advmod |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 thought | det |
| 27 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 explored | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 fear | case |
| 29 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 thought | nmod |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 goddess | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 goddess | det |
| 32 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fear | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 eaten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | gerund | 21 berries and strawberries not said here | the brink of the crater | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on brink=Location | ||||
| 2 | eat | past · passive | Ohelo | the lake of fire conj; freely property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | explore | participle | fire not said here | without a thought of fear of the goddess | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | think | fear of the goddess | nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | fear | the goddess | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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