Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Snow-goddess, sentence 25
Here she sported among mortals, meeting the chiefs in their many and curious games of chance and skill.
Who acts: Poliahu · What happens: sport, meet · To what, where: chiefs, many games
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 (Poliahu), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 sported | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sported | nsubj |
| 3 | sported | sport | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | among | among | ADP | _ | 5 mortals | case |
| 5 | mortals | mortal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sported | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 meeting | punct |
| 7 | meeting | meet | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 sported | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 chiefs | det |
| 9 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 meeting | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 games | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 games | nmod:poss |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 games | amod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 curious | cc |
| 14 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 many | conj |
| 15 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 meeting | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 chance | case |
| 17 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 games | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 skill | cc |
| 19 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 chance | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sported | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sport | past | Poliahu | here | among mortals | tree rules | |||
| 2 | meet | gerund | Poliahu not said here | the chiefs | chiefs's many games of chance and skill | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chief=Co-Agent |
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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