Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Owl Ghost-god, sentence 36
Pele’s fire-darts were falling upon him and he was near death.
Who acts: fire darts, Pele · What happens: fall, be · To what, where: near death
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 (fire darts, Pele), 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 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 darts | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 1 Pele | case |
| 3 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 darts | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 fire | punct |
| 5 | darts | dart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 falling | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 falling | aux |
| 7 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 falling | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 death | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 death | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 death | cop |
| 13 | near | near | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 death | amod |
| 14 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 him | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 falling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past · progressive | Pele's fire darts | upon Pele | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon he=Location | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Pele | near death | tree rules |
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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