Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Snow-goddess, sentence 22
Kahoupokane was possibly the goddess of the mountain Hualalai, controlling the snows which after long intervals fall on its desolate summits.
Who acts: Kahoupokane, long intervals · What happens: be, control, fall, desolate · To what, where: goddess, snows, summits
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 (Kahoupokane, long intervals), 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 | Kahoupokane | Kahoupokane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 goddess | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 goddess | cop |
| 3 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 5 goddess | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 goddess | det |
| 5 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 mountain | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mountain | det |
| 8 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 goddess | nmod |
| 9 | Hualalai | Hualalai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 mountain | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 controlling | punct |
| 11 | controlling | control | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 goddess | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 snows | det |
| 13 | snows | snow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 controlling | obj |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 fall | obj |
| 15 | after | after | ADP | _ | 17 intervals | case |
| 16 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 intervals | amod |
| 17 | intervals | interval | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 fall | nsubj |
| 18 | fall | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 snows | acl:relcl |
| 19 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 21 desolate | mark |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 desolate | nmod:poss |
| 21 | desolate | desolate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 fall | ccomp |
| 22 | summits | summit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 desolate | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 goddess | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Kahoupokane | the goddess | of the mountain; possibly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | control | gerund | Kahoupokane not said here | the snows | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snow=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fall | present | long intervals | the snows | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | desolate | infinitive | long intervals not said here | summits | snow nmod:poss | 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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