Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Snow-goddess, sentence 35
The three mountains belonging to the snow-goddesses were clothed with snow almost down to the seashore.
Who acts: three mountains · What happens: belong, clothe · To what, where: three mountains
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 (three mountains), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mountains | det |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 mountains | nummod |
| 3 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 clothed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | belonging | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 mountains | acl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 goddesses | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 goddesses | det |
| 7 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 goddesses | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 snow | punct |
| 9 | goddesses | goddess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 belonging | obl |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 clothed | aux:pass |
| 11 | clothed | clothe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 snow | case |
| 13 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 clothed | obl |
| 14 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 15 down | advmod |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 11 clothed | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 seashore | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 seashore | det |
| 18 | seashore | seashore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 down | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 clothed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong | gerund | the three mountains not said here | to the snow goddesses | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | clothe | past · passive | the three mountains | with snow; down property | vn dress-41.1.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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