Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Snow-goddess, sentence 5
They ruled the mountains north of Kilauea and dwelt in the cloud-capped summits.
Who acts: maidens · What happens: rule, dwell, cap · To what, where: mountains, capped summits
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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ruled | nsubj |
| 2 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 mountains | det |
| 4 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ruled | obj |
| 5 | north | north | ADV | _ | 2 ruled | advmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Kilauea | case |
| 7 | Kilauea | Kilauea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 north | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 dwelt | cc |
| 9 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ruled | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 summits | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 summits | det |
| 12 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 capped | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 cloud | punct |
| 14 | capped | cap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 summits | amod |
| 15 | summits | summit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 dwelt | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ruled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rule | past | maidens = maiden | the mountains | north property | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Theme | |||
| 2 | dwell | past | maidens = maiden not said here | the capped summits | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in summit=Location | ||||
| 3 | cap | participle | cloud compound | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
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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