Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Na Puu O Pele, sentence 47
But Pele made it difficult for them to escape from her presence.
Who acts: Pele, chiefs · What happens: make, escape · To what, where: control, presence
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 (Pele, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 made | cc |
| 2 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | obj |
| 5 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 made | xcomp |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 escape | mark |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 escape | nsubj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 escape | mark |
| 9 | escape | escape | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 difficult | ccomp |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 presence | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 presence | nmod:poss |
| 12 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 escape | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Pele | control | difficult property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product | |||
| 2 | escape | to-infinitive | chiefs = chief | Pele's presence | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from presence=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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