Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 87
Thus she passed along the coast of each island, the family watching and aiding until they came to the great volcano Haleakala.
Who acts: place, family, fires · What happens: pass, watch, aid, come · To what, where: coast, great volcano
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 (place, family, 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 passed | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | along | along | ADP | _ | 6 coast | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 coast | det |
| 6 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 island | case |
| 8 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 island | det |
| 9 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 coast | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 watching | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 family | det |
| 12 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 watching | nsubj |
| 13 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 passed | advcl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 aiding | cc |
| 15 | aiding | aid | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 watching | conj |
| 16 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 18 came | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 aiding | ccomp |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 volcano | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 volcano | det |
| 21 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 volcano | amod |
| 22 | volcano | volcano | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | obl |
| 23 | Haleakala | Haleakala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 volcano | appos |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | place | the coast of each island | thus property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme along coast=Location | |||
| 2 | watch | gerund | the family | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | aid | gerund | the family not said here | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | come | past | fires = fire | the great volcano | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to volcano=Initial_Location |
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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