Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 102
They served their goddess sister, caring for her fires and pouring out the destructive rivers of lava at her commands.
Who acts: fires, sister · What happens: serve, care, pour out, fire, command · To what, where: goddess sister, destructive rivers, commands · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (fires, sister), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 served | nsubj |
| 2 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sister | nmod:poss |
| 4 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sister | compound |
| 5 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 served | iobj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 caring | punct |
| 7 | caring | care | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 served | advcl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 fires | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 fires | nmod:poss |
| 10 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 caring | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 pouring | cc |
| 12 | pouring | pour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 caring | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 pouring | compound:prt |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 rivers | det |
| 15 | destructive | destructive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 rivers | amod |
| 16 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 pouring | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 lava | case |
| 18 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rivers | nmod |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 commands | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 commands | nmod:poss |
| 21 | commands | command | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 pouring | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 served | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve | past | fires = fire | fires's goddess sister | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | care | gerund | fires = fire not said here | for sister's fires | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for fire=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pour out | gerund | fires = fire not said here | the destructive rivers of lava | sister's commands | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Patient | |||
| 4 | fire | sister | nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | command | sister | nom command «communication 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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