Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Na Puu O Pele, sentence 41
For hours they sported together, the chiefs led captive by the charms of the goddess.
Who acts: chiefs · What happens: sport, lead · To what, where: hours
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Na Puu O Pele. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chiefs), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 hours | case |
| 2 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 led | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sported | nsubj |
| 4 | sported | sport | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hours | acl:relcl |
| 5 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 sported | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 hours | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 chiefs | det |
| 8 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 led | nsubj |
| 9 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | captive | captive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 led | xcomp |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 charms | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 charms | det |
| 13 | charms | charm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 led | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 goddess | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 goddess | det |
| 16 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 charms | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sport | past | chiefs = chief | hours not said here | together property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | lead | past | the chiefs | hour | by the charms of the goddess; captive property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by charm=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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