Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Snow-goddess, sentence 47
At last he called to her: “This cold is the snow mantle of Poliahu.
Who acts: retinue, cold · What happens: call, be · To what, where: Aiwohikupua, last, snow mantle · 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 (retinue, cold), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 called | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 called | nsubj |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 called | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 mantle | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 mantle | punct |
| 9 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 cold | det |
| 10 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 mantle | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 mantle | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mantle | det |
| 13 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 mantle | compound |
| 14 | mantle | mantle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 called | xcomp |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Poliahu | case |
| 16 | Poliahu | Poliahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 mantle | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | past | retinue | Aiwohikupua | last | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | this cold | the snow mantle | of Poliahu | tree rules |
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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