Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Snow-goddess, sentence 55
It may have been before or after this strange legendary courtship that the snow-maiden met Pele, the maiden of volcanic fires.
Who acts: home, snow maiden · What happens: be, meet · To what, where: Pele
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 (home, snow maiden), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 courtship | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 courtship | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 courtship | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 courtship | cop |
| 5 | before | before | ADP | _ | 11 courtship | case |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 after | cc |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 before | conj |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 courtship | nsubj |
| 9 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 courtship | amod |
| 10 | legendary | legendary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 courtship | amod |
| 11 | courtship | courtship | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 met | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 maiden | det |
| 14 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 maiden | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 snow | punct |
| 16 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 met | nsubj |
| 17 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 courtship | advcl |
| 18 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 met | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 maiden | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 maiden | det |
| 21 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Pele | appos |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 fires | case |
| 23 | volcanic | volcanic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 fires | amod |
| 24 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 maiden | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 courtship | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | may · perfect | home | before strange legendary courtship | this nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | meet | past | the snow maiden | Pele | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pele=Co-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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