Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Owl Ghost-god, sentence 28
There was an old prophetess who had rushed to the side of her master when he was brought to his home.
Who acts: old prophetess · What happens: be, rush, bring · To what, where: Pii, home
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: who acts (old prophetess), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 prophetess | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 prophetess | amod |
| 5 | prophetess | prophetess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 rushed | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 rushed | aux |
| 8 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 prophetess | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 side | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 side | det |
| 11 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rushed | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 master | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 master | nmod:poss |
| 14 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 side | nmod |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 brought | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 brought | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 brought | aux:pass |
| 18 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 rushed | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 home | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 home | nmod:poss |
| 21 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 brought | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a old prophetess | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | rush | past · perfect | a old prophetess | to the side of prophetess's master result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to side=Result | ||||
| 3 | bring | past · passive | Pii | Pii's home | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to home=Destination |
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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