Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 69
They felt that some one of the Christian teachers should be with her.
Who acts: missionaries, some · What happens: feel, be
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 (missionaries, some), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 her | mark |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 her | nsubj |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 some | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 teachers | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 teachers | det |
| 8 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 teachers | amod |
| 9 | teachers | teacher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 one | nmod |
| 10 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 her | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 her | cop |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 felt | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | missionaries = missionary | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is | should | some one of the Christian teachers | with Kapiolani | tree rules |
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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