Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 11
Pele caught the egg, wrapped it in her skirt to keep it warm near her body, and said that it should always be with her.
Who acts: Pele, egg · What happens: catch, wrap, keep, say, be · To what, where: egg, skirt · 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 (Pele, egg), 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 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 caught | nsubj |
| 2 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 egg | det |
| 4 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 caught | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 wrapped | punct |
| 6 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 caught | conj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 wrapped | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 skirt | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 skirt | nmod:poss |
| 10 | skirt | skirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wrapped | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 keep | mark |
| 12 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 wrapped | advcl |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 keep | obj |
| 14 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 keep | xcomp |
| 15 | near | near | ADP | _ | 17 body | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 body | nmod:poss |
| 17 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 warm | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 caught | conj |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 her | mark |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 her | nsubj |
| 23 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 her | aux |
| 24 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 27 her | advmod |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 her | cop |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 her | case |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 said | ccomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | Pele | the egg | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wrap | past | Pele not said here | egg | Pele's skirt | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in skirt=Destination | |||
| 3 | keep | to-infinitive | Pele not said here | egg | warm property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Pele not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | should | egg | with Pele; always property | tree rules |
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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