Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Na Puu O Pele, sentence 44
At last the young men became suspicious of their companion, her love was so fitful and capricious, sometimes burning with a raging fire toward her friends and sometimes filled with hot anger on very slight provocation.
Who acts: last young men, love, Pele · What happens: become, be, burn, rage, fill, love
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 (last young men, love, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 men | amod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 men | det |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 men | amod |
| 5 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 became | nsubj |
| 6 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | suspicious | suspicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 became | xcomp |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 companion | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 companion | nmod:poss |
| 10 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 suspicious | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fitful | punct |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 love | nmod:poss |
| 13 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fitful | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 fitful | cop |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 fitful | advmod |
| 16 | fitful | fitful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 became | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 capricious | cc |
| 18 | capricious | capricious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 fitful | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 burning | punct |
| 20 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 21 burning | advmod |
| 21 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 fitful | advcl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 fire | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 fire | det |
| 24 | raging | rage | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 fire | amod |
| 25 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 burning | obl |
| 26 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 28 friends | case |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 friends | nmod:poss |
| 28 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 fire | nmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 filled | cc |
| 30 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 31 filled | advmod |
| 31 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 friends | conj |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 anger | case |
| 33 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 anger | amod |
| 34 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 filled | obl |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 provocation | case |
| 36 | very | very | ADV | _ | 37 slight | advmod |
| 37 | slight | slight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 provocation | amod |
| 38 | provocation | provocation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 anger | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the last young men | suspicious property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Pele's love | fitful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | Pele's love not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | burn | gerund | Pele's love not said here | with a raging fire toward Pele's friends; sometimes property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with fire=Theme | ||||
| 5 | rage | gerund | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | fill | participle | Pele's love not said here | with hot anger on slight provocation; sometimes property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with anger=Instrument | ||||
| 7 | love | Pele | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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