Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Snow-goddess, sentence 4
They embodied the mythical ideas of spirits carrying on eternal warfare between heat and cold, fire and frost, burning lava and stony ice.
Who acts: maidens, spirits · What happens: embody, carry, burn · To what, where: mythical ideas, eternal warfare, lava
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, spirits), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 embodied | nsubj |
| 2 | embodied | embody | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ideas | det |
| 4 | mythical | mythical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ideas | amod |
| 5 | ideas | idea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 embodied | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 spirits | case |
| 7 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ideas | nmod |
| 8 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 spirits | acl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 warfare | case |
| 10 | eternal | eternal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 warfare | amod |
| 11 | warfare | warfare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 carrying | obl |
| 12 | between | between | ADP | _ | 13 heat | case |
| 13 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 warfare | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 cold | cc |
| 15 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 heat | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fire | punct |
| 17 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 warfare | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 frost | cc |
| 19 | frost | frost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 warfare | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 burning | punct |
| 21 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 carrying | conj |
| 22 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 burning | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 ice | cc |
| 24 | stony | stony | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 ice | amod |
| 25 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lava | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 embodied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | embody | past | maidens = maiden | the mythical ideas of spirits | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | carry | gerund | spirits not said here | eternal warfare between heat and fire and frost | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | burn | gerund | spirits not said here | lava and stony ice | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent lava=Theme |
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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