Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Snow-goddess, sentence 11
In her hands lay the power to hold in check the eruptions which might break forth through the old cinder cones in the floor of the great crater.
Who acts: hands, eruptions · What happens: lie, hold, break · To what, where: power, check, old cinder cones
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 (hands, eruptions), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 hands | case |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 hands | nmod:poss |
| 3 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lay | nsubj |
| 4 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 power | det |
| 6 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 hold | mark |
| 8 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 lay | advcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 check | case |
| 10 | check | check | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hold | obj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 eruptions | det |
| 12 | eruptions | eruption | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 check | obj |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 break | nsubj |
| 14 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 break | aux |
| 15 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 eruptions | acl:relcl |
| 16 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 15 break | advmod |
| 17 | through | through | ADP | _ | 21 cones | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 cones | det |
| 19 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 cones | amod |
| 20 | cinder | cinder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cones | compound |
| 21 | cones | cone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 break | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 floor | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 floor | det |
| 24 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cones | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 crater | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 crater | det |
| 27 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 crater | amod |
| 28 | crater | crater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 floor | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | Lilinoe's hands | the power | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location power=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hold | to-infinitive | Lilinoe's hands not said here | check the eruptions | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent check=Theme | ||||
| 3 | break | might | the eruptions | the old cinder cones in the floor of the great crater | forth property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through cone=Location |
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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