Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Snow-goddess, sentence 40
The snow went back to the mountain tops, and the maidens, in the beauty of their golden sun-garments, gave hearty greeting to their friends.
Who acts: snow, maidens · What happens: go back, give · To what, where: hearty greeting, friends
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 (snow, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 snow | det |
| 2 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 tops | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tops | det |
| 7 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tops | compound |
| 8 | tops | top | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 gave | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 gave | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 maidens | det |
| 12 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 gave | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 beauty | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 beauty | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 beauty | det |
| 16 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 maidens | appos |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 garments | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 garments | nmod:poss |
| 19 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 garments | amod |
| 20 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 garments | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 sun | punct |
| 22 | garments | garment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 beauty | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 maidens | punct |
| 24 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 25 | hearty | hearty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 greeting | compound |
| 26 | greeting | greeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gave | obj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 friends | case |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 friends | nmod:poss |
| 29 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 gave | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | the snow | to the mountain tops result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to top=Result | ||||
| 2 | give | past | the maidens | hearty greeting | maidens's friends | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent greeting=Theme to friend=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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