Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Ai-laau, the Forest Eater, sentence 25
As she passed on her way there grew within her an intense desire to go at once and see Ai-laau, the god to whom Kilauea belonged, and find a resting-place with him as the end of her journey.
Who acts: Ke, Kilauea · What happens: pass, grow, go, see, belong, find · To what, where: intense desire, way, Ai laau, resting place
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Ai-laau, the Forest Eater. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ke, Kilauea), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 passed | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 way | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 way | nmod:poss |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grew | obl |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 grew | advmod |
| 8 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | conj |
| 9 | within | within | ADP | _ | 10 her | case |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 grew | obl |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 desire | det |
| 12 | intense | intense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 desire | amod |
| 13 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grew | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 go | mark |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 desire | acl |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 once | case |
| 17 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 15 go | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 see | cc |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 go | conj |
| 20 | Ai | ai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 laau | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 Ai | punct |
| 22 | laau | laau | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 see | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 god | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 god | det |
| 25 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 laau | appos |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 whom | case |
| 27 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 god | nmod |
| 28 | Kilauea | Kilauea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 belonged | nsubj |
| 29 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 whom | acl:relcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 find | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 find | cc |
| 32 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 grew | conj |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 place | det |
| 34 | resting | resting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 place | compound |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 resting | punct |
| 36 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 find | obj |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 him | case |
| 38 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 place | nmod |
| 39 | as | as | ADP | _ | 41 end | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 end | det |
| 41 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 find | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 journey | case |
| 43 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 journey | nmod:poss |
| 44 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 end | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | Ke | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | grow | past | Ke not said here | a intense desire | Ke's way; there | within Ke | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location desire=Theme | ||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | Ke not said here | a intense desire not said here | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location | ||||
| 4 | see | infinitive | Ke not said here | Ai laau | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer laau=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | belong | past | Kilauea | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | find | infinitive | Ke not said here | a resting place | as the end of Ke's journey | with Kilauea | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent place=Theme as end=Attribute | ||
| 7 | journey | Ke | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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