Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Snow-goddess, sentence 45
The chief’s friends made reconciliation between the Maui chiefess and Aiwohikupua, but when the day of marriage came the chiefess found herself surrounded by an invisible atmosphere of awful cold.
Who acts: day, chiefess · What happens: make, come, find, surround · To what, where: Aiwohikupua, made reconciliation · 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 (day, chiefess), 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 chief | det |
| 2 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 friends | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 chief | case |
| 4 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 reconciliation | nsubj |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 reconciliation | amod |
| 6 | reconciliation | reconciliation | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | between | between | ADP | _ | 10 chiefess | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 chiefess | det |
| 9 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 chiefess | compound |
| 10 | chiefess | chiefess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reconciliation | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Aiwohikupua | cc |
| 12 | Aiwohikupua | Aiwohikupua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 chiefess | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 came | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 came | cc |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 came | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 day | det |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 marriage | case |
| 19 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 day | nmod |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 reconciliation | parataxis |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 chiefess | det |
| 22 | chiefess | chiefess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 found | nsubj |
| 23 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 came | conj |
| 24 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 found | obj |
| 25 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 found | ccomp |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 atmosphere | case |
| 27 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 atmosphere | det |
| 28 | invisible | invisible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 atmosphere | amod |
| 29 | atmosphere | atmosphere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 cold | case |
| 31 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 cold | amod |
| 32 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 atmosphere | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 reconciliation | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 2 | come | past | the day of marriage | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | find | past | the chiefess | Aiwohikupua | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent herself=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | surround | participle | a invisible atmosphere of awful cold obl:agent | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=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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