Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Snow-goddess, sentence 36
Poliahu and the three other maidens of the white robe came down to meet the guests from Kauai.
Who acts: Poliahu · What happens: come down, meet · To what, where: guests, Kauai
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 | Poliahu | Poliahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 came | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 maidens | cc |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 maidens | det |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 maidens | nummod |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 maidens | amod |
| 6 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Poliahu | conj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 robe | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 robe | det |
| 9 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 robe | amod |
| 10 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 maidens | nmod |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | down | down | ADV | _ | 11 came | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 meet | mark |
| 14 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 came | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 guests | det |
| 16 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 meet | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 Kauai | case |
| 18 | Kauai | Kauai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 guests | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come down | past | Poliahu and the three other maidens of the white robe | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | meet | to-infinitive | Poliahu and the three other maidens of the white robe not said here | the guests | Kauai | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guest=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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