Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 73
After a long time she saw the smoke of earth-fires far away on the island Kauai.
Who acts: hai, earth fires · What happens: see, smoke · To what, where: smoke
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 (hai, earth 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 smoke | det |
| 8 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 fires | case |
| 10 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fires | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 earth | punct |
| 12 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 smoke | nmod |
| 13 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 away | advmod |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 saw | advmod |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 island | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 island | det |
| 17 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 away | obl |
| 18 | Kauai | Kauai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 island | appos |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | hai | the smoke of earth fires | time | away property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer smoke=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | smoke | earth fires | nom smoke «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent |
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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