Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 63
The people with Kapiolani were hushed into a terrified silence, but she listened quietly until the priestess, carried beyond her depth, read a confused mass of jumbled words, and unintelligible noises, which she called “The dialect of the ancient Pele.”
Who acts: Kapiolani · What happens: hush, listen, carry, read, jumble, call · To what, where: people, terrified silence, confused mass, unintelligible noises · 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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hushed | nsubj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 Kapiolani | case |
| 4 | Kapiolani | Kapiolani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 people | nmod |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hushed | aux:pass |
| 6 | hushed | hush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 silence | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 silence | det |
| 9 | terrified | terrified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 silence | amod |
| 10 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hushed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 listened | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 listened | cc |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 listened | nsubj |
| 14 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hushed | parataxis |
| 15 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 14 listened | advmod |
| 16 | until | until | ADP | _ | 18 priestess | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 priestess | det |
| 18 | priestess | priestess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 listened | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 carried | punct |
| 20 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 listened | conj |
| 21 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 23 depth | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 depth | nmod:poss |
| 23 | depth | depth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 carried | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 read | punct |
| 25 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 carried | advcl |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 mass | det |
| 27 | confused | confused | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 mass | amod |
| 28 | mass | mass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 read | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 words | case |
| 30 | jumbled | jumble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 words | amod |
| 31 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 mass | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 noises | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 noises | cc |
| 34 | unintelligible | unintelligible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 noises | amod |
| 35 | noises | noise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hushed | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 called | punct |
| 37 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 called | obj |
| 38 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 called | nsubj |
| 39 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 noises | acl:relcl |
| 40 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 dialect | punct |
| 41 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 dialect | det |
| 42 | dialect | dialect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 called | xcomp |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 Pele | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 Pele | det |
| 45 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 Pele | amod |
| 46 | Pele | pele | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 dialect | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hushed | punct |
| 48 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 hushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hush | past · passive | the people with Kapiolani | a terrified silence | unintelligible noises obl | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | listen | past | Kapiolani | until the priestess | quietly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | carry | past | Kapiolani not said here | beyond priestess's depth | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | read | infinitive | Kapiolani not said here | a confused mass of jumbled words | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mass=Topic | ||||
| 5 | jumble | participle | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 6 | call | past | Kapiolani | unintelligible noises | the dialect of the ancient Pele xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Recipient |
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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