Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 19

In Kau we had quite a sprinkling of Pele’s hair, peculiar earthquakes—first hard shakes, then a swaying motion, as if the whole island were swaying back and forth and we with it.

Who acts: we, whole island · What happens: have, sway · To what, where: sprinkling, Kau

This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Volcanic Activity. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, whole island), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 Kau	case
2	Kau	Kau	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 had	obl
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	7 sprinkling	det:predet
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 sprinkling	det
7	sprinkling	sprinkling	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 hair	case
9	Pele	Pele	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 hair	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 Pele	case
11	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sprinkling	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 earthquakes	punct
13	peculiar	peculiar	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 earthquakes	compound
14	earthquakes	earthquake	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sprinkling	conj
15	—	-	PUNCT	_	18 shakes	punct
16	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 hard	advmod
17	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 shakes	amod
18	shakes	shake	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sprinkling	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 motion	punct
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 motion	advmod
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 motion	det
22	swaying	sway	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 motion	amod
23	motion	motion	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 shakes	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 swaying	punct
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 swaying	mark
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 swaying	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 island	det
28	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 island	amod
29	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 swaying	nsubj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 swaying	aux
31	swaying	sway	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 had	conj
32	back	back	ADV	_	31 swaying	advmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 forth	cc
34	forth	forth	ADV	_	32 back	conj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 it	cc
36	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 it	nsubj
37	with	with	ADP	_	38 it	case
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	we	quite sprinkling of Pele's hair and peculiar earthquakes and hard shakes a swaying motion	Kau	island conj	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sprinkling=Patient
2	sway	gerund					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sway a condition, not said to happen	past · progressive	the whole island				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «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), Volcanic Activity, sentence 19

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Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 19