Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Chiefs of Puna, sentence 89
The chief was so frequently the victor that at last he boasted that he could ride his surf-board on the waves of her lake of fire.
Who acts: chief, cone · What happens: be, boast, ride, wave · To what, where: victor, last, surf board, waves, lake
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, cone), 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 | 7 victor | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 victor | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 frequently | advmod |
| 5 | frequently | frequently | ADV | _ | 7 victor | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 victor | det |
| 7 | victor | victor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 boasted | obj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 last | case |
| 10 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 boasted | obl |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 boasted | nsubj |
| 12 | boasted | boast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 victor | acl:relcl |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 ride | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 ride | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 ride | aux |
| 16 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 boasted | advcl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 board | nmod:poss |
| 18 | surf | surf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 board | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 surf | punct |
| 20 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ride | obj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 waves | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 waves | det |
| 23 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 ride | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 lake | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 lake | nmod:poss |
| 26 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 waves | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 fire | case |
| 28 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lake | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 victor | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the chief | the victor | frequently property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | boast speech: other | past | cone | the victor | last | tree rules | |||
| 3 | ride | could | cone | cone's surf board | the waves of chief's lake of fire | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent board=Theme | |||
| 4 | wave | chief's lake of fire | nom wave «event 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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