Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Genealogy of the Pele Family, sentence 104
Kapo was a vile, murderous poison-goddess connected with the idea of “praying to death,” [7] and in the better legends is dropped out of the Pele family.
Who acts: Kapo, idea · What happens: be, connect, pray, drop out · To what, where: vile murderous poison goddess, Pele family
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Genealogy of the Pele Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kapo, idea), 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 | Kapo | Kapo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 goddess | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 goddess | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 goddess | det |
| 4 | vile | vile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 goddess | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 vile | punct |
| 6 | murderous | murderous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 goddess | amod |
| 7 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 goddess | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 poison | punct |
| 9 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 dropped | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | connected | connect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 goddess | acl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 idea | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 idea | det |
| 13 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 connected | obl |
| 14 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 16 praying | mark |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 praying | punct |
| 16 | praying | pray | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 idea | acl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 death | case |
| 18 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 praying | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 goddess | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 goddess | punct |
| 21 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 22 7 | punct |
| 22 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 goddess | appos |
| 23 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 22 7 | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 legends | cc |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 legends | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 legends | det |
| 27 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 28 legends | amod |
| 28 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 goddess | conj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 dropped | aux:pass |
| 30 | dropped | drop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 31 | out | out | ADP | _ | 35 family | case |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 family | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 family | det |
| 34 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 family | compound |
| 35 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 dropped | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 dropped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Kapo | a vile murderous poison goddess and the better legends | 7 appos; the better legends conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | connect | participle | a vile murderous poison goddess and the better legends not said here | with the idea | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient with idea=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | pray in a quote | gerund | the idea not said here | to death | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 4 | drop out | present · passive | a vile murderous poison goddess and the better legends | the Pele family | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme family=Destination |
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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