Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 115
It was like the explosions of gas in volcanic eruptions, and it seemed as if the foreigners had persuaded Pele to assist them in any trouble with the natives.
Who acts: voice, it, foreigners · What happens: be, seem, persuade, assist · To what, where: explosions, Pele, foreigners, trouble
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 (voice, it, foreigners), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 explosions | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 explosions | cop |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 explosions | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 explosions | det |
| 5 | explosions | explosion | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 gas | case |
| 7 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 explosions | nmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 eruptions | case |
| 9 | volcanic | volcanic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 eruptions | amod |
| 10 | eruptions | eruption | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 gas | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 seemed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 seemed | cc |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 seemed | nsubj |
| 14 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 explosions | acl:relcl |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 persuaded | mark |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 persuaded | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 foreigners | det |
| 18 | foreigners | foreigner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 persuaded | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 persuaded | aux |
| 20 | persuaded | persuade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 seemed | xcomp |
| 21 | Pele | pele | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 persuaded | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 assist | mark |
| 23 | assist | assist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 persuaded | advcl |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 assist | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 trouble | case |
| 26 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 trouble | det |
| 27 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 assist | obl |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 natives | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 natives | det |
| 30 | natives | native | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 trouble | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 explosions | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | voice | like the explosions; of gas in volcanic eruptions | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | seem | past | it | the explosions not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | persuade a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | the foreigners | Pele | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pele=Patient | ||||
| 4 | assist | to-infinitive | the foreigners not said here | foreigners = foreigner | any trouble with the natives | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary |
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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