Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Na Puu O Pele, sentence 83
Later lava flows have turned aside to spare the monuments of the chiefs with whom Pele played for a time, and the two hills of Pele are still seen near the shore of the ocean.
Who acts: lava flows, Pele · What happens: turn, spare, play, see · To what, where: monuments, two hills, shore
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 (lava flows, 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 | Later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 turned | advmod |
| 2 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flows | compound |
| 3 | flows | flow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 turned | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 turned | aux |
| 5 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 5 turned | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 spare | mark |
| 8 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 turned | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 monuments | det |
| 10 | monuments | monument | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 spare | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 chiefs | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 chiefs | det |
| 13 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 monuments | nmod |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 whom | case |
| 15 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 chiefs | nmod |
| 16 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 played | nsubj |
| 17 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 whom | acl:relcl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 time | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 time | det |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 played | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 seen | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 seen | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 hills | det |
| 24 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 hills | nummod |
| 25 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Pele | case |
| 27 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 hills | nmod |
| 28 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 seen | aux:pass |
| 29 | still | still | ADV | _ | 30 seen | advmod |
| 30 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 turned | conj |
| 31 | near | near | ADP | _ | 33 shore | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 shore | det |
| 33 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 seen | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 ocean | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 ocean | det |
| 36 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 shore | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present · perfect | lava flows | aside, late property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | spare | to-infinitive | lava flows not said here | the monuments of the chiefs with the monuments of the chiefs with the monuments | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent monument=Asset | ||||
| 3 | play | past | Pele | time | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | see | present · passive | the two hills of Pele | the shore of the ocean | still | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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