Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Chiefs of Puna, sentence 46
Then followed taunts and angry words and the sudden absolute loss of all self-control on the part of Pele.
What happens: follow · To what, where: taunts
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: 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 followed | advmod |
| 2 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | taunts | taunt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 followed | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 words | cc |
| 5 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 words | amod |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 taunts | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 loss | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 loss | det |
| 9 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 loss | amod |
| 10 | absolute | absolute | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 loss | amod |
| 11 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 taunts | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 control | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 control | det |
| 14 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 control | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 self | punct |
| 16 | control | control | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 loss | nmod |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 part | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 part | det |
| 19 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 control | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Pele | case |
| 21 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 part | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | taunts and angry words and the sudden absolute loss of all self control on the part of Pele | then | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taunt=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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