Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Snow-goddess, sentence 39
Then the maidens threw off their white mantles and called for the sunshine.
Who acts: maidens · What happens: throw off, call · To what, where: white mantles · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (maidens), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 threw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 maidens | det |
| 3 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 threw | nsubj |
| 4 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 mantles | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mantles | nmod:poss |
| 7 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 mantles | amod |
| 8 | mantles | mantle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 threw | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 called | cc |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 mantles | acl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 sunshine | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sunshine | det |
| 13 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 called | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw off | past | the maidens | maidens's white mantles | then | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mantle=Theme | |||
| 2 | call | participle | maidens's white mantles not said here | for the sunshine | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for sunshine=Recipient |
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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