Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kaha-wali, sentence 63
She was no longer the common native, but was the beautiful young chiefess in her fire-body, eyes flaming and hair floating back in clouds of smoke.
Who acts: Pele, eyes · What happens: be, flame, float back, cloud · To what, where: beautiful young chiefess, fire body, clouds, smoke
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kaha-wali. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pele, eyes), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 native | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 native | cop |
| 3 | no | no | ADV | _ | 4 longer | advmod |
| 4 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 native | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 native | det |
| 6 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 native | amod |
| 7 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 chiefess | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 chiefess | cc |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 chiefess | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 chiefess | det |
| 12 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 chiefess | amod |
| 13 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 chiefess | amod |
| 14 | chiefess | chiefess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 native | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 body | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 body | nmod:poss |
| 17 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 body | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 fire | punct |
| 19 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 chiefess | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 eyes | punct |
| 21 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 chiefess | appos |
| 22 | flaming | flame | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 eyes | acl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 hair | cc |
| 24 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 flaming | conj |
| 25 | floating | float | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 flaming | conj |
| 26 | back | back | ADV | _ | 25 floating | advmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 clouds | case |
| 28 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 floating | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 smoke | case |
| 30 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 clouds | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 native | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Pele | long, native property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Pele not said here | the beautiful young chiefess | Pele's fire body | eyes appos | tree rules | ||
| 3 | flame | gerund | eyes not said here | hair conj | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | float back | gerund | eyes not said here | clouds of smoke | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cloud=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | cloud | smoke | nom cloud «phenomenon 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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