Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Snow-goddess, sentence 85
She has kept the upper part of the mountain desolate under her mantle of snow and ice, but down toward the sea most fertile and luxuriant valleys and hillside slopes attest the gifts of the goddess to the beauty of the island and the welfare of men.
Who acts: Poliahu, upper part, luxuriant valleys · What happens: keep, desolate, attest, gift · To what, where: upper part, mantle, gifts, goddess
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 (Poliahu, upper part, luxuriant valleys), 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 kept | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 kept | aux |
| 3 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 part | det |
| 5 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 part | amod |
| 6 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kept | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 mountain | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mountain | det |
| 9 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 part | nmod |
| 10 | desolate | desolate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 kept | xcomp |
| 11 | under | under | ADP | _ | 13 mantle | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 mantle | nmod:poss |
| 13 | mantle | mantle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 desolate | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 snow | case |
| 15 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mantle | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 ice | cc |
| 17 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mantle | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 fertile | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 fertile | cc |
| 20 | down | down | ADV | _ | 23 sea | advmod |
| 21 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 23 sea | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sea | det |
| 23 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fertile | nsubj |
| 24 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 25 fertile | advmod |
| 25 | fertile | fertile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 kept | conj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 attest | cc |
| 27 | luxuriant | luxuriant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 valleys | amod |
| 28 | valleys | valley | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 attest | nsubj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 slopes | cc |
| 30 | hillside | hillside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 slopes | compound |
| 31 | slopes | slope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 valleys | conj |
| 32 | attest | attest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 fertile | conj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 gifts | det |
| 34 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 attest | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 goddess | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 goddess | det |
| 37 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 gifts | nmod |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 beauty | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 beauty | det |
| 40 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 attest | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 island | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 island | det |
| 43 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 beauty | nmod |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 welfare | cc |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 welfare | det |
| 46 | welfare | welfare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 island | conj |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 men | case |
| 48 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 welfare | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present · perfect | Poliahu | the upper part of the mountain | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | desolate | infinitive | the upper part of the mountain not said here | Poliahu's mantle of snow and ice | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | attest | present | luxuriant valleys and hillside slopes | the gifts of the goddess | to the beauty of the island and the welfare of men | tree rules | |||
| 4 | gift | the goddess | nom gift «possession 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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