Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Owl Ghost-god, sentence 13
After a time Kau was lured to go at night to a house far from his own home.
What happens: lure, go · To what, where: Kau, house
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Owl Ghost-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lured | obl |
| 4 | Kau | Kau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 lured | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lured | aux:pass |
| 6 | lured | lure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 go | mark |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 lured | xcomp |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 night | case |
| 10 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 go | obl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 house | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 house | det |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 go | obl |
| 14 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 go | advmod |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 home | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 home | nmod:poss |
| 17 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 home | amod |
| 18 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 far | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lure | past · passive | Kau | time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | a house | night | far property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=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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