Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 107
Pele is said to have become impatient at times with her brothers and sisters.
What happens: say, become · To what, where: Pele · 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: 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 | Pele | pele | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | aux:pass |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 become | mark |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 become | aux |
| 6 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 said | xcomp |
| 7 | impatient | impatient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 become | xcomp |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 times | case |
| 9 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 impatient | obl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 brothers | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 12 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 times | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sisters | cc |
| 14 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 brothers | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · passive | Pele | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | become | to-infinitive · perfect | impatient property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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