Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 7
She was living in a happy home in the presence of her parents, and yet for a long time she was “stirred by thoughts of far-away lands.”
Who acts: Pele, thoughts · What happens: live, stir, think · To what, where: happy home, Pele, lands
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, thoughts), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 living | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 living | aux |
| 3 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 home | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 home | det |
| 6 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 home | amod |
| 7 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 living | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 presence | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 presence | det |
| 10 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 living | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 parents | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 parents | nmod:poss |
| 13 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 presence | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 time | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 time | cc |
| 16 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 20 time | advmod |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 time | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 time | det |
| 19 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 time | amod |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 living | obl |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 stirred | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 stirred | aux:pass |
| 23 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 stirred | punct |
| 24 | stirred | stir | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 time | acl:relcl |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 thoughts | case |
| 26 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 stirred | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 lands | case |
| 28 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 away | advmod |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 far | punct |
| 30 | away | away | ADV | _ | 27 of | fixed |
| 31 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 thoughts | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 time | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 living | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past · progressive | Pele | a happy home | time | in the presence of Pele's parents | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in home=Location | ||
| 2 | stir in a quote | past · passive | thoughts of lands | Pele | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | think in a quote | lands | nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=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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