Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Ai-laau, the Forest Eater, sentence 32
When Pele came to that pit she laid out the plan for her abiding home, beginning at once to dig up the foundations.
Who acts: Pele, plan · What happens: come, lay out, abide, begin, dig up · To what, where: pit, plan, foundations
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 (Pele, plan), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 laid | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 pit | case |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 pit | det |
| 6 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 laid | nsubj |
| 8 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 laid | compound:prt |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 plan | det |
| 11 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 laid | obj |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 abiding | mark |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 abiding | nmod:poss |
| 14 | abiding | abide | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 plan | acl |
| 15 | home | home | ADV | _ | 14 abiding | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 beginning | punct |
| 17 | beginning | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 abiding | conj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 once | case |
| 19 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 17 beginning | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 dig | mark |
| 21 | dig | dig | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 beginning | advcl |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 dig | compound:prt |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 foundations | det |
| 24 | foundations | foundation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 dig | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Pele | that pit | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to pit=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | lay out | past | Pele | the plan | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Result | ||||
| 3 | abide | gerund | the plan not said here | Pele nmod:poss; home property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | begin | gerund | the plan not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | dig up | to-infinitive | the plan not said here | the foundations | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent foundation=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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