Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 85

Mr. Richards says: “A man whose duty it was to feed Pele, by throwing berries and the like into the volcano, entreated her to go no farther.

Who acts: Richards, duty, man · What happens: say, be, throw, entreat, go · To what, where: berries, Pele · 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 (Richards, duty, man), 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	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Richards	nmod:desc
2	Richards	Richards	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 man	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 man	punct
6	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 man	det
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 entreated	nsubj
8	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	9 duty	nmod:poss
9	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 feed	nsubj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 feed	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 feed	cop
12	to	to	PART	_	13 feed	mark
13	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 man	acl:relcl
14	Pele	Pele	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 feed	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 throwing	punct
16	by	by	SCONJ	_	17 throwing	mark
17	throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 feed	advcl
18	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 throwing	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 volcano	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 volcano	det
21	like	like	ADP	_	24 volcano	case
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 volcano	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 volcano	det
24	volcano	volcano	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 berries	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 entreated	punct
26	entreated	entreat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 entreated	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 go	mark
29	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 entreated	xcomp
30	no	no	ADV	_	31 farther	advmod
31	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	29 go	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Richards Mr.			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	past	duty		Pele obj; feed property	tree rules
3	throw in a quote	gerund	duty not said here	berries and the volcano		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Theme
4	entreat in a quote	past	a man	Pele		vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
5	go in a quote	to-infinitive	a man not said here		far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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🌲 Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 85

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 85