Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Chiefs of Puna, sentence 77
As he came around the eastern side of Hawaii he landed and climbed to the highest point from which he could have a glimpse of his loved Puna.
Who acts: prophet · What happens: come, land, climb, have, love, glimpse · To what, where: eastern side, highest point, glimpse, loved Puna
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 (prophet), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 came | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 landed | advcl |
| 4 | around | around | ADP | _ | 7 side | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 side | det |
| 6 | eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 side | amod |
| 7 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Hawaii | case |
| 9 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 side | nmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 landed | nsubj |
| 11 | landed | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 climbed | cc |
| 13 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 landed | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 point | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 point | det |
| 16 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 point | amod |
| 17 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 climbed | obl |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 which | case |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 have | obl |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 have | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 have | aux |
| 22 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 point | acl:relcl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 glimpse | det |
| 24 | glimpse | glimpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 have | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Puna | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 Puna | nmod:poss |
| 27 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 Puna | amod |
| 28 | Puna | Puna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 glimpse | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 landed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | prophet | the eastern side of Hawaii | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme around side=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | land | past | prophet | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | climb | past | prophet not said here | the highest point | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to point=Destination | ||||
| 4 | have | could | prophet | a glimpse of prophet's loved Puna | the highest point | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glimpse=Patient | |||
| 5 | love | participle | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 6 | glimpse | prophet's loved Puna | nom glimpse «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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