Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Chiefs of Puna, sentence 74

The chief was angry and yet was frightened, so he told the prophet that he would go back to his own land and see if that word were true or false.

Who acts: chief, prophet, word · What happens: be, frighten, tell, go back, see · To what, where: prophet · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (chief, prophet, word), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 chief	det
2	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 angry	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 angry	cop
4	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 frightened	cc
6	yet	yet	ADV	_	8 frightened	advmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 frightened	aux:pass
8	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 angry	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 told	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 told	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	nsubj
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 angry	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 prophet	det
14	prophet	prophet	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 told	obj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 go	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 go	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 go	aux
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 told	xcomp
19	back	back	ADV	_	18 go	advmod
20	to	to	ADP	_	23 land	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 land	nmod:poss
22	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 land	amod
23	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 go	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 see	cc
25	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 go	conj
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 true	mark
27	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 word	det
28	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 true	nsubj
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 true	cop
30	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 see	ccomp
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 false	cc
32	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 true	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 angry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the chief			angry property	tree rules
2	frighten	past · passive	the chief not said here		yet		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
3	tell speech: assert	past	prophet	the prophet			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent prophet=Recipient clause=Topic
4	go back not said to happen	would	prophet			to prophet's own land result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to land=Result
5	see	infinitive	prophet not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is a condition, not said to happen	past	that word			true property	tree rules
7	be		that word not said here				tree rules

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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🌲 Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Chiefs of Puna, sentence 74

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Chiefs of Puna, sentence 74