Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 103
As time passed they became a part of the innumerable multitude of au-makuas, or ghost-gods, of the Pit of Pele, worshipped especially by those whose lives were filled with burning anger against their fellow-men.
Who acts: fires · What happens: pass, become, worshipp, fill, burn · To what, where: ghost gods, part, lives
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), 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 | ADP | _ | 2 time | case |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | obl |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 became | nsubj |
| 5 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | ccomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 part | det |
| 7 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 became | xcomp |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 multitude | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 multitude | det |
| 10 | innumerable | innumerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 multitude | amod |
| 11 | multitude | multitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 part | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 makuas | case |
| 13 | au | au | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 makuas | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 au | punct |
| 15 | makuas | makua | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 multitude | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 gods | punct |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 gods | cc |
| 18 | ghost | ghost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gods | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 ghost | punct |
| 20 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 passed | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Pit | punct |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Pit | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Pit | det |
| 24 | Pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Pele | case |
| 26 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Pit | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 worshipped | punct |
| 28 | worshipped | worshipp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | conj |
| 29 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 28 worshipped | advmod |
| 30 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 those | case |
| 31 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 28 worshipped | obl |
| 32 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 33 lives | nmod:poss |
| 33 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 filled | aux:pass |
| 35 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 those | acl:relcl |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 anger | case |
| 37 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 38 anger | amod |
| 38 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 filled | obl |
| 39 | against | against | ADP | _ | 43 men | case |
| 40 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 men | nmod:poss |
| 41 | fellow | fellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 men | amod |
| 42 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 fellow | punct |
| 43 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 anger | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | ghost gods | time | of the Pit of Pele | tree rules | |||
| 2 | become | past | fires = fire | a part of the innumerable multitude of au makuas | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | worshipp | past | by those; especially property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | fill | past · passive | lives | with burning anger against fires's fellow men | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with anger=Instrument | ||||
| 5 | burn | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «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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