Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Na Puu O Pele, sentence 56
Her hair floated out in tangled masses, touched by the breath of hot winds.
Who acts: hair · What happens: float out, tangle, touch · To what, where: tangled masses
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 (hair), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 hair | nmod:poss |
| 2 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 floated | nsubj |
| 3 | floated | float | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 floated | compound:prt |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 masses | case |
| 6 | tangled | tangle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 masses | amod |
| 7 | masses | mass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 floated | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 touched | punct |
| 9 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 masses | acl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 breath | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 breath | det |
| 12 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 touched | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 winds | case |
| 14 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 winds | amod |
| 15 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 breath | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 floated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float out | participle | Pele's hair | tangled masses | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mass=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | tangle | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | touch | participle | tangled masses not said here | by the breath of hot winds | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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