Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 90
The man was silent and she went onward, descending several hundred feet, and there joined in a prayer to Jehovah.
Who acts: man, fire · What happens: be, go, descend, join · To what, where: several hundred feet
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 (man, fire), 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 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 silent | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 silent | cop |
| 4 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 went | cc |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 silent | conj |
| 8 | onward | onward | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 descending | punct |
| 10 | descending | descend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 went | advcl |
| 11 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 feet | amod |
| 12 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 feet | nummod |
| 13 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 descending | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 joined | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 joined | cc |
| 16 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 joined | advmod |
| 17 | joined | join | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 silent | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 prayer | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 prayer | det |
| 20 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 joined | obl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 Jehovah | case |
| 22 | Jehovah | Jehovah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 prayer | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 silent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the man | silent property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | past | fire | onward property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | descend | gerund | fire not said here | several hundred feet | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location foot=Theme | ||||
| 4 | join | participle | the man not said here | there | in a prayer to Jehovah | vn cooperate-73.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in prayer=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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