Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Snow-goddess, sentence 1
There were four maidens with white mantles in the mythology of the Hawaiians.
Who acts: four maidens · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Snow-goddess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (four maidens), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 maidens | nummod |
| 4 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 mantles | case |
| 6 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mantles | amod |
| 7 | mantles | mantle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 maidens | nmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 mythology | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mythology | det |
| 10 | mythology | mythology | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mantles | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Hawaiians | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Hawaiians | det |
| 13 | Hawaiians | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 mythology | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | four maidens with white mantles in the mythology of the Hawaiians | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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