Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Snow-goddess, sentence 87
Pele’s kingdom has been limited to the southern half of the island Hawaii, while the snow-maidens rule the territory to the north.
Who acts: snow maidens · What happens: limit, rule · To what, where: kingdom, southern half, territory
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 (snow 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 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 1 Pele | case |
| 3 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 limited | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 limited | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 limited | aux:pass |
| 6 | limited | limit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 half | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 half | det |
| 9 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 half | amod |
| 10 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 6 limited | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 island | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 island | det |
| 13 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 half | nmod |
| 14 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 island | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 rule | punct |
| 16 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 21 rule | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 maidens | det |
| 18 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 maidens | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 snow | punct |
| 20 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 rule | nsubj |
| 21 | rule | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 limited | parataxis |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 territory | det |
| 23 | territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rule | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 north | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 north | det |
| 26 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rule | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 limited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | limit | present · perfect · passive | Pele's kingdom | to the southern half of the island goal | vn limit-76 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Patient to half=Goal | ||||
| 2 | rule | present | the snow maidens | the territory | to the north | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent territory=Theme |
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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