Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 42
When Kapiolani left her home in Kona her people, with great wailing, again attempted to persuade her to stay with them.
Who acts: Kapiolani · What happens: leave, attempt, persuade, stay · To what, where: home, Kona, great wailing, Kapiolani
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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 left | advmod |
| 2 | Kapiolani | Kapiolani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 left | nsubj |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 home | nmod:poss |
| 5 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Kona | case |
| 7 | Kona | Kona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 left | obl |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 people | nmod:poss |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 left | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wailing | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 wailing | case |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 wailing | amod |
| 13 | wailing | wailing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 attempted | punct |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 attempted | advmod |
| 16 | attempted | attempt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 wailing | acl:relcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 persuade | mark |
| 18 | persuade | persuade | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 attempted | xcomp |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 persuade | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 stay | mark |
| 21 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 persuade | xcomp |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 them | case |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 stay | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | Kapiolani | Kapiolani's home | Kona | Kapiolani's people obj; great wailing parataxis | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent home=Theme people=Attribute | ||
| 2 | attempt | participle | great wailing not said here | again | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | persuade not said to happen | to-infinitive | Kapiolani | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 4 | stay | to-infinitive | Kapiolani not said here | with people | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with they=Location |
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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