Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 74
It was now evening, and a hut was built to shelter her until the next day came, when she could have the opportunity of descending into the crater.
Who acts: attempt, evening, next day, Mr., opportunity · What happens: be, build, shelter, come, have, descend · To what, where: evening, hut, Mr., opportunity, crater
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 (attempt, evening, next day, Mr.), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 evening | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 evening | cop |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 evening | advmod |
| 4 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 built | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 built | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hut | det |
| 8 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 built | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 built | aux:pass |
| 10 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 evening | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 shelter | mark |
| 12 | shelter | shelter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 built | advcl |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 shelter | obj |
| 14 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 18 came | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 day | det |
| 16 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 day | amod |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 shelter | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 have | punct |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 have | advmod |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 have | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 have | aux |
| 23 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 came | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 opportunity | det |
| 25 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 have | obj |
| 26 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 27 descending | mark |
| 27 | descending | descend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 opportunity | acl |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 crater | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 crater | det |
| 30 | crater | crater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 descending | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 evening | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | attempt | evening | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | build | past · passive | evening not said here | a hut | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 3 | shelter | to-infinitive | evening not said here | Mr. | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 4 | come | past | the next day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | have | could | Mr. | the opportunity | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Patient | ||||
| 6 | descend | gerund | the opportunity not said here | the crater | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into crater=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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