Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Chiefs of Puna, sentence 81
Pele had heard the boasting chief and had shown that no land around her pit of fire was secure against her will.
Who acts: Pele, land · What happens: hear, boast, show, be · To what, where: boasting chief
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, land), 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 | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | aux |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 chief | det |
| 5 | boasting | boast | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 chief | amod |
| 6 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 shown | cc |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 shown | aux |
| 9 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 heard | conj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 secure | mark |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 land | det |
| 12 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 secure | nsubj |
| 13 | around | around | ADP | _ | 15 pit | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 pit | nmod:poss |
| 15 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 land | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 fire | case |
| 17 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pit | nmod |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 secure | cop |
| 19 | secure | secure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 shown | conj |
| 20 | against | against | ADP | _ | 22 will | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 will | nmod:poss |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 secure | aux |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · perfect | Pele | the boasting chief | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer chief=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | boast speech: other | gerund | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | show | past · perfect | Pele not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | no land around Pele's pit of fire | secure property | 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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