Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Snow-goddess, sentence 37
Cold winds swayed their garments as they drew near to the sea.
Who acts: Cold winds, winds · What happens: sway, draw · To what, where: garments, sea
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 (Cold winds, winds), 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 | Cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 winds | amod |
| 2 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 swayed | nsubj |
| 3 | swayed | sway | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 garments | nmod:poss |
| 5 | garments | garment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 swayed | obj |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 drew | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 drew | nsubj |
| 8 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 swayed | advcl |
| 9 | near | near | ADV | _ | 8 drew | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 sea | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sea | det |
| 12 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drew | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 swayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sway | past | Cold winds | winds's garments | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location garment=Theme | ||||
| 2 | draw | past | winds = wind | the sea | near property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to sea=Destination |
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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