Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Chiefs of Puna, sentence 42
Pele heard a great noise of shouting and clapping hands and desired to see the sport.
Who acts: Pele, great noise · What happens: hear, shout, clap, desire, see · To what, where: great noise, hands, sport
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Chiefs of Puna. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pele, great noise), 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 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 noise | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 noise | amod |
| 5 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heard | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 shouting | case |
| 7 | shouting | shout | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 noise | acl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 clapping | cc |
| 9 | clapping | clap | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 shouting | conj |
| 10 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 clapping | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 desired | cc |
| 12 | desired | desire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 shouting | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 see | mark |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 desired | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sport | det |
| 16 | sport | sport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 see | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Pele | a great noise | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | shout speech: express | gerund | a great noise not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | clap | gerund | a great noise not said here | hands | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme | ||||
| 4 | desire | participle | a great noise not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | a great noise not said here | the sport | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sport=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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