Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 101
The Pele family crossed the channel between the islands and went to the mountain side, for they also had seen the spirit form of Pele.
Who acts: Pele family, fires · What happens: cross, go, see, form · To what, where: channel, mountain side, spirit form, Pele
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, How Pele Came to Hawaii. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pele family, fires), 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 | 3 family | det |
| 2 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 family | compound |
| 3 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crossed | nsubj |
| 4 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 channel | det |
| 6 | channel | channel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crossed | obj |
| 7 | between | between | ADP | _ | 9 islands | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 islands | det |
| 9 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 crossed | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 crossed | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 side | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 side | det |
| 14 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 side | compound |
| 15 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 seen | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 seen | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 seen | nsubj |
| 19 | also | also | ADV | _ | 21 seen | advmod |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 seen | aux |
| 21 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 went | parataxis |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 form | det |
| 23 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 form | compound |
| 24 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 seen | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Pele | case |
| 26 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 form | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 crossed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | past | the Pele family | the channel | between the islands | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent channel=Patient | |||
| 2 | go | past | the Pele family not said here | the mountain side | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to side=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | see | past · perfect | fires = fire | the spirit form of Pele | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer form=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | form | Pele | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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