Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Snow-goddess, sentence 57
She usually appeared as a woman of wonderfully beautiful countenance and form—a stranger unknown to any of the different companies entering into the sport.
Who acts: Pele, different companies · What happens: appear, enter · To what, where: sport
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 (Pele, different companies), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 appeared | nsubj |
| 2 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 3 appeared | advmod |
| 3 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 woman | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 woman | det |
| 6 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 appeared | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 countenance | case |
| 8 | wonderfully | wonderfully | ADV | _ | 9 beautiful | advmod |
| 9 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 countenance | amod |
| 10 | countenance | countenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 woman | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 form | cc |
| 12 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 countenance | conj |
| 13 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 unknown | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 stranger | det |
| 15 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 unknown | nsubj |
| 16 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 appeared | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 any | case |
| 18 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 unknown | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 companies | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 companies | det |
| 21 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 companies | amod |
| 22 | companies | company | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 any | nmod |
| 23 | entering | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 companies | acl |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 sport | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sport | det |
| 26 | sport | sport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 entering | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | Pele | as a woman of beautiful countenance and form; usually property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | enter | gerund | the different companies not said here | the sport | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into sport=Initial_Location |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/12/57/