Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Na Puu O Pele, sentence 71
Shrieking like fierce, whistling winds, tearing her hair and throwing it away in bunches, Pele sped after the chiefs.
Who acts: Pele · What happens: shriek, whistle, tear, throw away, speed · To what, where: winds, hair, bunches
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), 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 | Shrieking | shriek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 sped | advcl |
| 2 | like | like | ADP | _ | 3 fierce | case |
| 3 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Shrieking | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 whistling | punct |
| 5 | whistling | whistle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Shrieking | conj |
| 6 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 whistling | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 tearing | punct |
| 8 | tearing | tear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Shrieking | conj |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hair | nmod:poss |
| 10 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tearing | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 throwing | cc |
| 12 | throwing | throw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 tearing | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 throwing | obj |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 throwing | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 bunches | case |
| 16 | bunches | bunch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 throwing | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Shrieking | punct |
| 18 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 sped | nsubj |
| 19 | sped | speed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | after | after | ADP | _ | 22 chiefs | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 chiefs | det |
| 22 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 sped | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 sped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shriek | gerund | Pele not said here | like fierce | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | whistle | gerund | Pele not said here | winds | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=Topic | ||||
| 3 | tear | gerund | Pele not said here | Pele's hair | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location hair=Theme | ||||
| 4 | throw away | gerund | Pele not said here | hair | bunches | away property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme in bunch=Destination | ||
| 5 | speed | past | Pele | after the chiefs | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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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