Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Snow-goddess, sentence 75
Clouds gathered over the mountain summit at the call of the snow-goddess.
Who acts: Clouds · What happens: gather, call · To what, where: mountain summit, snow goddess · 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 (Clouds), 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 | Clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 gathered | nsubj |
| 2 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 summit | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 summit | det |
| 5 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 summit | compound |
| 6 | summit | summit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gathered | obl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 call | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 call | det |
| 9 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gathered | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 goddess | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 goddess | det |
| 12 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 goddess | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 snow | punct |
| 14 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 call | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gathered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | past | Clouds | the mountain summit | at the call of the snow goddess | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | call | the snow goddess | nom call «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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